If we were to hit the level that Metallica or somebody like that hit, we'd have had a hard time dealing with it. I think it would have been our doom. It's hard for anybody at that level.

The packaging has to really sell the product today, because kids can go out and buy a CD and then 10 kids can burn them. So you have to really be on your toes.

We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

My job is not babysitting people; my job is focusing on making the best band I possibly can.

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind.

Don't buy the bootlegs, save your stuff, everything's coming back out.