Ted Dwane

“We're a restless bunch, and we have a lot of energy - we're never going to stand still.”

“I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.”

“I don't know many artists who've managed to go a career without bringing these things up. Saying the word 'God,' 'Jesus' - it happens in a million rock songs.”

“Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.”

“If you told me in the '90s that I'd be in a chart battle with Green Day, I probably would have just laughed at you.”

“There's a point with every record we've made that the album starts to assert its identity, and I think that's kind of what happened with 'The Wolf.'”

“We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.”

“We'd never thought we'd get to travel so extensively, meet our heroes, and collaborate with so many people.”

“We don't want to be as big as Oasis!”

“Touring is something I do really well.”

“You can't really opt into something you don't believe in.”

“We were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they asked us to play live.”

“People don't really need to question our sincerity when it comes to our songs.”

“I play the drums really, really badly.”

“A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere.”

“When you write on the road, you are restricted to the instruments around you, whereas in the studio, you can plug anything in and try it.”

“As soon as we started playing sports arenas, we thought how great it would be if we could instead play to 25,000 people in our own way - a way we can control it so there's not all kinds of company branding around the show - and do it in a way that celebrates the community.”

“We don't read a lot of what people say about us.”

“We wouldn't last a year on the road playing music that we didn't love.”

“We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments.”