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.

That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

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

I think that every band tries to mature their sound through their existence, you know?

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.

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.

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.