How did you meet and form the band? What made you decided to start a band?
Benji: We met in high school, and we went to a lot of shows together and after every show we would always be like "We gotta start a band man, We gotta start a band" and we just did.
Paul, You have lovely nail polish on too! Paul: (In a gay voice) Oh Stop!
Who are some of your musical influences? Have you gotten the opportunity to meet any of them? Joel: Just one, Rancid right now.
Paul: MXPX, We did a tour with them. We were always listen to them when we were growing up. Meeting them, and like touring with them and becoming friends with them was Really Rad!
How has the absence of Aaron affected the band? Did he leave on a positive or negative note? Benji: Positive, Positive, Everything is Positive.
Billy: We are still on tour so it's all good!
Benji: You have to take everything as it comes, and I honestly feel like the band is on another level right now.
Joel: We are just moving forward, that's the bottom line.
What was your inspiration for writing "Motivation Proclamation"?
Billy: It's about being down, being the underdog.
Were you having a bad day when you wrote that song? Joel: A bad life.
Benji: Inspiration was the Inspiration..
Billy: Having a bad life.
Benji: We really wanted to inspire ourselves, you know? You know?
Paul: Its a good song right?
(All) YEAH!
Benji: It's a good CD too!
Do you like to play pranks on each other? Benji: We stole all of Paul's clothes and made him play naked. One time we cut Billy's arm off.
Oh and it grew back? Billy: No its fake. .Pranks? Do we really play pranks on each other? We don't really play pranks on each other.
Benji: One time they shot me!
Billy: You know the normal put their hand in hot water while they are sleeping so you wake up you have pee all over yourself.
Benji: One time we dropped a boulder on Billy's head.
Paul: I dropped an anvil on Benji.
Joel: I killed Paul's whole family.
Benji: I put rat poison in Billy's food one time.
Billy: I murdered Paul's entire family.
Paul: I'm still getting over it, but you know its all right, he's a nice guy. It was funny though.
Benji: One time I ripped all of Billy's toenails off.
Billy: And he ate them!
Paul: OK Next question.
Benji: One time I ripped Joel's nipples off! One time I pierced Paul's butt cheeks together. (ALL) Laughing
Would you ever consider turning in your instruments to learn choreography and become a Boy Band? Benji: Umm.After you shot me in the head.
Paul: No, she said would you ever consider actually becoming a boy band?
Joel: But we are a boy band.
No, like the Backstreet Boys. Benji: Have we ever murdered a boy band? YES! There was a band called P-Town, and we shot them!
Would you ever switch your instruments to become one of them like N'Sync, Would you ever want to be one of them? Benji: NO!
Have you ever met a fan so many times that you remember them and actually tell them that you remember them. Benji: All the time we do.
Billy: We do it all the time.
Even if you didn't remember them, would you say you did? Benji: If I didn't remember them, I would be like "I'm sorry, I don't remember you"
Billy: Sometimes I do, Sometimes I don't.
Benji: If I remembered you, I would remember you. But if I didn't, I didn't.
Paul: Like if someone asked "Do you remember me?" And I honestly dont I don't lie.
Benji: Sometimes I just I say NOPE.
Paul: We meet so many people every day, Sometimes its hard.
Benji: When I meet girls I like, I throw up on them!
If you could sum up life into a Bumper Sticker, What would it say? Benji: Life is Benji, The rest is just details .Benji is Life!
(ALL) Laughing.
Paul: Oops I did it again!
Benji: I have what you want.
Joel: (To Benji) You Wish!
Billy: Princess!
Joel: I'm Lost.
It seems as if Joel and Benji have a lot of hostility towards your Dad, Now that you guys have achieved fame, Has your dad tried to make contact with you?
Benji: No, we killed him!
Paul: Don't get it wrong, We all hate their dad.
Joel: He fell off a roof, and now he's dead.
Benji: He got hit by a truck yesterday and now he's dead.
What was the most memorable experience of your last tour? Benji: Uh, The MxPx tour?
Paul: The last show.
(Cuts him off)
Benji: Yeah the last show. Just hanging out with MxPx, we've always loved those guys.
Paul: Those guys were so nice to us and taught us like so much.
Benji: Yeah, they like taught us the ropes, of like you know, of being a touring band. They are awesome in general
Paul: So they were awesome.
Benji: That whole tour was an experience, you know?
If you could be any Barbie doll, (Malibu, Disco, Evening, etc.) and Which one would you be and WHY?
Benji: Malibu Stacey! Malibu Stacey! I would be Malibu Stacey.
Joel: Bloody Barbie.
Benji: She has a cool car.
Stacey isn't Barbie.
Billy: I would be Ken so I could be getting up on Barbie all day!
Benji: I would the Barbie with the inter-changeable boobs.
They make those?
Joel: LA Barbie!
Paul: I would be a GI Joe Barbie
Billy: Crimp and Curl Barbie. That ones awesome. The one where you cut the hair and pump and more hair comes out. .All right give us another good one.
Do you guys have any hidden talents? What impersonations can you do?
Billy: I can juggle.
Benji: I can disappear!
Oh Really?
Benji: Yeah! Watch! (Gets out of his seat to leave)
Billy: I can bend the top knuckles on all my fingers (he's double jointed).
Paul: I can do this! (Makes 3 little creases in his tongue) YEAH!!
Joel, do you have any special talents?
Joel: (Shakes his head) No, I'm just in the band
Benji: Yeah, he's just in the band