How did Start The Machine come about?
It was just a documentary on the making of the first album. It was supposed to be, at least -- and then lots of fun things like crazy statements and weird stuff got thrown in the mix, and it ended up being much more of a story than just the making of the record. It was really the making of the new Tom DeLonge. The story of the band needed to be told 'cause it's so controversial coming out of Blink. No one really knew the reasons why, then I came out and said all these things the wrong way, then all the hype and the growth of how fast the band grew, and it seemed like the story was there. We didn’t have the goal of having some VH1 story, but we definitely had the goal to portray our art in a visual manner and that’s something that we wanted to do from day one.

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