We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.
Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.
For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.
We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.
Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.
It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.