Jeff McDonald

“When you come from a punk rock background, earnestness — I think that’s the word  — can be one of the most embarrassingly corny things on earth,” says McDonald. “So it’s very hard to say something sentimental and feel like you’re not going to regret it, you know, like, ‘Oh man, it’s a Hallmark card.’ Or, you know, ‘All my punk roots are just cashed in now.’”