You are currently on tour celebrating 25 years of “Jump Around.” Did you ever, in your wildest dreams, imagine “Jump Around” would still elicit the reaction it does 25 years later?

You can’t really predict the future, but five years into it, seeing how it was. Ten years into it, seeing how it was. Fifteen years into it, seeing how it was, I guess I could kinda see it, but it’s not why we made it, because we didn’t know, but as soon as we started playing it out I remember people going nuts, and I just kinda knew it was on. No looking back after ’91, man.

You mentioned that five years out you had an inkling “Jump Around” would last for a while, but when did you realize the song might be a little bit bigger than you had initially imagined?

As soon as I saw it being in movies, Mrs. Doubtfire, and all that stuff, it pretty much sealed the deal. As soon as a song’s in a movie, that’s kinda forever, especially when it’s a classic movie.

Is it safe to say House of Pain was your first taste of fame?

You know, I guess it would be, but my first tour I ever did was with Everlast, before House of Pain. I was about 16, and my parents had to sign a waiver for me to go to Europe with Ice-T and the Rhyme Syndicate.

So that was my first tour, my first everything, but before that I was also in the Tairrie B video “Murder She Wrote,” where I got to meet Eazy-E. That was my real first yooo I’m in a video, dude! Wow! I’m here chillin with Eazy-E!

Then when I got to meet Ice-T I was like, oh my God, I’m here sitting in Ice-T’s house, and Darlene is making me a sandwich. I was like, yo, it doesn’t get better than this. Then it got better.