Was there anyone backstage saying, “No dick jokes. No fart jokes”?
[Laughs.] No, but we were backstage and they wanted us to rehearse our lines, and we had like three sentences that we said. They kept telling us, “Please, please just say what’s on the screen.” They didn’t want us to go rogue. So when did talk of a reunion first commence? Probably a couple weeks after we first started talking. I dunno, maybe it was longer than that. But I remember sitting in our studio–me, Travis and Tom [DeLonge, guitar]–and we were just talking and hanging out. Tom had just kind of come out to L.A. for the day, and I remember he said, “So, what do you guys think? Where are your heads at” And I said, “I think we should continue with what we’ve been doing for the past 17 years. I think we should get back on the road and back in the studio and do what we love doing.” Was that verbatim? I don’t know if that’s exactly what I said. But it was something like that. Was that feeling mutual or was there some trepidation? There wasn’t any trepidation. I think all of us had co
