One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.
When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.
Times change and you have to adapt.
Playing for someone else's crowd is always difficult for any band.
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.
There's not a word that describes us. Weโre not alternative, metal or grunge - weโre not any of that. Weโre just what we are.