Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

It was really different this time, because we did everything in the studio and thought out the writing and song structures. Before this album ["The Black Crown"], we used to just write riff after riff and then worry about the rest of it later.

So many bands write about the same s - . It gets real boring after a while.

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

In 2008, we had barely put our first album out and a lot of people were unsure about us on that tour. But the crowds were insane to say the least.

Everything I write means a lot to me because it is my head on paper.