Personal Life
Holland was the class valedictorian at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California, and was a Ph.D. candidate in Molecular Biology at the University of Southern California; however, he abandoned his Ph.D. in favor of focusing on The Offspring. He has a Bachelor's degree in Biology and a Master's degree in Molecular Biology, both from the University of Southern California.
He has a daughter, Alexa Holland, who goes by the stage name Lex Land and is a singer-songwriter.
Holland is also a licensed Airline Transport Pilot and, as of April 2009, is a Certified Flight Instructor who has made a solo trip around the world in ten days.
He participated in the 2006 Los Angeles Marathon; his charity of choice was the Innocence Project, a non-profit legal clinic that handles legal cases where post-conviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence.
Holland has his own brand of hot sauce, Gringo Bandito.
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