I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

We just wanted to get as far away from the rap-rock scene as possible, because its been done and other bands do it better than us anyway.

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

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.

I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.

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

Musicians don't respect a lot of the stuff that is on TRL and a lot of musicians think that stuff on the radio is not good musically so when musicians say that they like us it obviously feels good.