From Rollingstone.com:

Members of Blink-182 Discuss Overcoming Years of Acrimony

‘The air was so thick around us back in the day you could cut it with a knife,’ says Travis Barker

We recently posted a long series of interviews with the members of Blink-182 – but that was only the beginning. Here’s part two of our series of Q&As with Mark Hoppus, Tom Delonge and Travis Barker, conducted backstage at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York. We spoke about the difficult birth of their new album Neighborhoods, how they finally learned to communicate and compromise after years of strife, and Delonge’s belief that that the band has embraced a “much more modern and relevant form of rock & roll.”

Mark Hoppus

Everybody in the group spent the last few years working on different projects. Do you think that helped the creative process after you guys convened to cut the new album?
Yeah, absolutely. I think that doing things outside of Blink allows us to find out what our skill sets are, what we’re good at, what we lack, what each person brings to the table. I think probably the most important lesson we learned from taking five years off from Blink was each of us is very different from one another and we’re never going to connect on certain things and it’s that disconnect that makes us Blink.

Often the very thing that drives a band apart is that force that makes them so great in the first place. Some bands just can’t compromise and they simply cease to function. You guys have clearly learned how to compromise.
Well, we’re still learning. It’s somewhere in there, in this battle between our ideas the good stuff comes out. That’s probably the biggest lesson that we learned being absent from one another for so long.

You can read the rest of the interview HERE.