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"Regarding Blink's break up. At the end, our priorities were mad different . . . So instead of talking, I just made this album. There's a story line that runs throughout it, it's autobiographical, I felt like I lost my two best friends, I lost the band I created, and I did it all for my family. And so I decided to write the album about my life.

Rather than sit there and whine, I used analogies about love and war, because that's what this whole thing was like. Playing music in the wake of the Blink thing was like finding love in the middle of a war zone.

The album contains the juxtaposition between the worst the world can offer and an endless hope of the human imagination and the future. The idea that if you can see yourself differently in the world, you might actually change the world around you.

If you slam the Cure, Pink Floyd, U2 and the Police into one band with me singing, that's kind of what it will sound like. It's everything you like about those little bands, but also with parts of Blink in there too."

– Tom DeLonge

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