Musician

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.

I've always dabbled on guitar, but never took lessons.

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

I like soundtracks and I like film.

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.

I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little sculptures, play video games.

I've never worried about how long the song is.

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.