Chad Gilbert

“All you truly need to worry about is waking up each day and to try to be the best version of yourself.”

“We first wrote the song 'Resurrection,' and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and stronger, and you learn a lot.”

“There are parts in albums where I wrote a lot of the lyrics. There are parts on albums where Steve wrote a lot of the lyrics, even albums where Steve did the majority of the lyric writing. Then there were albums like 'Coming Home' where I did most of the chorus lyric writing. But it was always split.”

“I swear, all we ever wanted to do was tour outside of Florida.”

“Every record from New Found Glory is a little different. We're a real band that writes songs about our everyday relationships - like, our personal war, not war and government or politics.”

“I love pumpkin pie.”

“We played some of our first big shows at Wayne Firehouse and Manville Elks Lodge. New Jersey's always been our home away from home.”

“When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.”

“It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.”

“When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.”

“In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.”

“I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.”

“Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'”

“Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.”

“I did play flag football. I actually got my lip busted. My team was really good; we won first place in the season, and won the Super Bowl. I was one of the defense guys. I was really good.”

“With the first album, we felt people didn't really understand our band.”

“We had such a huge fan base, they couldn't ignore us anymore. MTV was playing us on 'TRL.' We even did a TRL-sponsored tour that was Good Charlotte and us.”

“I'm involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.”

“Yeah, we might have a video on 'TRL,' but when you go to the Warped Tour you're going to see us walking around in the crowd and hanging out with kids because we treat our fans like we wanted to be treated when we were going to shows.”

“So many bands have the same performance-based videos, and it's so lame. I know bands whose labels rent a crowd, so they have these fake audiences that jump up and down trying to make it look like a pit or something.”