Social Distortion's Mike Ness recently spoke to Billboard about the band's next studio record and follow up to 2004's Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll.

Ness talked a little about the recent Greatest Hits release and the new track, "Far Behind" which closes it out:

We were in between studio albums, we're writing, and we thought it was a good time to pause and take a retrospective look at the band's career, And we also wanted to let people know that we weren't going anywhere and hit 'em with maybe an indication of what the next record might sound like.

He also offered some more details about the next album:

We have a dozen ideas at least -- a lot of songs that didn't make the last record. They didn't make it not necessarily because they weren't good enough. I have demos from 1994 that I'm revisiting -- great ideas that didn't get finished. You know, maybe they needed a better chorus or something. Also, I just want to create some new stuff entirely.

The creative vibe is just very charged right now. With every album, I want to outdo the last one. That's my goal going in: I want to make it better than the last one.

Next year, the band will celebrate their 30th anniversary, having formed in 1978.