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

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

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 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.

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

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

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.