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“We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.”
“I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way.”
“People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better.”
“I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out.”
“I think 'The Stage' is kind of left field.”
“I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing.”
“I think everyone in the band has had someone that's served in their family. I wouldn't say that anybody has a military family, but both of my grandfathers were in the military.”
“Always from day one, we were the band on Warped Tour with a fog machine, and our backdrop had to be up - everyone thought we were the biggest idiots for that, total posers. But for us, we wanted to be over the top.”
“Our band has always been really big on imagery. We've kind of used that as one of our strengths; we tend to do that pretty well.”
“We just found that in 2016, if you announce a record, and it's coming out in three months, and you're just giving people breadcrumbs, it's the most boring, drawn-out experience.”
“Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want.”
“We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.”
“When you look at metal, it's probably one of the healthiest genres when you look at it in a worldwide perspective - every single country listens to metal.”
“When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.”
“It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.”
“When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered.”
“We love the idea of putting out music in a non-conventional way.”
“We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be?”
“We like to wait to a point where we have to get in there and write a record because we're just so built up.”
“Personally, I just want to hear good songs.”