Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

I feel like with music there's so much ego rooted in expressing your thoughts and your experiences with it.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something

Whenever you try to work through the things that we're trying to work through, that we're addressing, it ends up looking negative. Our goal is nonjudgment, nonfiltered acceptance of everything. So much of our background collectively, especially in the United States, is denying and suppressing and disowning a lot of negativity and the darker areas. You can become swallowed up in it. It's cancerous. The goal should be to define acceptance for everything. To try and consider every aspect. To try to look into the shadows, as well as the light.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without the drug.