In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.