Jimmy Eat World

If I had five minutes alone with Snoop Dogg ...
Jim Adkins: How many people have said hit the bong?
Rick Burch: Poor Snoop, though. He'd be so stoned after hanging out with everyone because everyone would smoke once and he'd keep on taking it.
Zach Lind: Who are we and why are we here?
Adkins: Ask him the meaning of life? You think that would take five minutes?
Lind: I bet he'd give a long answer.

Best part of being considered "elder statesman" at the fest?
Lind: I was talking to Zac from Paramore last night, and he was saying "When you guys started, I was seven years old." It was mind-blowing in a Good way because it's like "Hey, we're still around," but then it's like "Hey, we're old!"
Adkins: But at the same time, I hope that I'm doing this that far in the future and that it's going better than it ever has.
Lind: Bands we grew up listening to when we were first starting out are bands we still listen to now. Jawbreaker, Rocket From the Crypt. We'd be that kind of kid if we saw John Reis from Rocket From the Crypt. Like, "Hey man, you're the shit!"

Jimmy Eat World perform at their tour-opening show at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas on April 1, 2008.