You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

Many things happen that we don't know the significance of until a little bit later.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners.

Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture.

The most important things cannot be measured.

Passionate expression and vehement assertion are no arguments, unless it be of the weakness of the cause that is defended by them, or of the man that defends it.