I'm a pessimist. But I'm a pessimist with a sense of responsibility.

Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging.

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.

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.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.