MTV: So basically you want people to buy three copies of the album?Hoppus: No. Actually, I'm sure what's going to happen is that people are going to trade with each other and borrow or whatever. We just wanted it so one kid would get one song, a different kid will get another song.
MTV: Will those songs eventually pop up on the Web site?
Hoppus: I'm sure they'll end up on the Web site and people will illegally trade them online. Sons of bitches.
MTV: In your opinion, is this a more mature album?
Hoppus: I don't know if this is a more mature album. I think it's a more advanced album. We definitely have some songs on here that do not have any maturity in them at all. Then we have some that are about ... all the same subjects we've always talked about. It's about relationships with family and girls and friends and life and divorce, being young and going to a party and trashing your friend's house. I think that we've just gotten better as songwriters and lyricists, so I don't think it's more mature. [RealAudio]
MTV: Is it true a guitar tech came up with the album title?
Hoppus: Our guitar tech, Larry, ... was snowboarding up in Big Bear. His friend came in all wet, and he said, "Dude, take off your pants and jacket!" They all started laughing. I was eating at a restaurant, [and] he called me on my cell phone and said, "I want to make a suggestion for the next album title." As soon as he said it, it was obviously the best.
MTV: If you didn't use that title, what do you think this album would have been called?
Hoppus: We were going to call it If You See Kay, and then we were also talking about having a bear on the cover and calling the album Genital Ben. [RealAudio]
MTV: Was "The Rock Show" the song you guys knew was going to be the first single right away?
Hoppus: I think it was the last song that we wrote for the record, and we thought that it was a good contender. It's hard to tell what's going to be the first single until you actually go into the studio, lay all the tracks down and hear it in its finished form. It's just a good, fast punk-rock love song. We tried to write it in the spirit of, like, the Ramones and Screeching Weasel. It's a really simple song. It's just three chords, and it's basic, but it's a catchy song.