Wow, this is big news, isn't it?"For the most part, I think people [at Sum's label, Island Records] thought I was f---ing crazy, and they thought that this was going to be a never-ending record and that I didn't know what I was doing, and it was sort of the Chinese Democracy of punk rock, I guess," Whibley said. "They actually stopped paying for stuff. At one point, we got to the point where I was like, 'I've got two more songs,' and they're like, 'This record is done. You are not getting any more money out of us, we are not going to put any more money into this thing, you're just wasting time.' And I just said, 'All right, f--- it, I'll pay for it.' And I ended up paying for the last few songs for the record.
The interviews keep getting better and better, first the Byron guy, then Exploremusic, but I think this is Deryck's best interview so far for this album and what he describes is exactly what I expected SBM to be. Could not be more pleased with that right now.
Btw. notice that this was another phone interview, which he seems to be MUCH more comfortable with.