Anyone who's followed our band through the years has heard about the teenage angst.

We've all had a million day jobs. We got by fine then.

Coffee in Italy and some places in Europe is great, but there's just something about Australian coffee.

Good Charlotte's the first band we've ever been in, and back then, critics didn't matter. There were no rules. There was no one we had to impress.

I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.

The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are the full boundaries of human endeavour. It's not physical - it's all in the head.

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

We see today that there is a growing understanding in the international community that the extremist regime in Tehran is not just Israel's problem, but rather an issue that the entire international community must grapple with.