Atom Willard of Against Me! recently did an interview and brought up his former band, Angels & Airwaves. Willard mentioned that the band took a turn from something he thought was nearly perfect after blink-182 reunited. Check out that part of the interview below after the jump.

You’ve played in a ton of different bands over the years. Why is that? Do you get bored easily? Is it restlessness?

I’ve been asked that a few times and what it really comes down to is that I’ve never been willing to settle. And by settle, I mean that I’ve always wanted the perfect situation where I’m creatively fulfilled and can do things I like to do and can speak my mind and be part of decision-making process for everything - t-shirt designs or songwriting or whatever. So I want that and I want to be in a good environment with people. I want to be around people who I get along with and I enjoy and I’m like-minded with. And after all that, I need to make a living. You can have the greatest time in the world with your friends, but if you can’t pay rent, you can’t go on tour. So it’s really been a quest to find all of that. There have been a couple times when I thought, “This is it!” Like with Angels and Airwaves, I thought it was the best thing. We had the greatest time and all got along, but circumstances changed when Tom [Delonge] started back up with Blink [182] again and the whole thing took a different turn. So it’s all of those things that have motivated me to move on. I’m just an idealist, I guess. [Laughs] I know it’s out there - I can find it. [Laughs]



I’m so lucky and so fortunate to have been given all of these different opportunities, but life happens and things change and you just have to change with them.