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I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

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My Life, Through, Happen, Tap

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.

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Start, Hitting, Onto, Whack

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself.

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Back, How, Like, Hurt

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

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Process, Big, Some, Twists

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

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Over, Last, Six, Sober

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

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Average, Always, Going, Fanatical

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

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Think, Always, Individual, Personalities

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.'

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Go, Economy, About, Sit

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

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Why, About, Constantly, Exact

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible.

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Doing, Records, Figured, Continuing

We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming.

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Want, Like, Smaller, Venues

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.

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Weird, Unsuccessful, Genre, Pigeonhole

My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside.

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Pink, Inside, Favorite, Flavor

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.

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Think, Opera, I Think, The First Thing

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up.

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Rock Star, Always, Everybody, Childhood Dream

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

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Blind, Asking, Telling, Blind Person

Touring for two years is excruciating.

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Two, Years, Excruciating, Touring

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

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Political, Band

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America.

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America, Shooting, Title, Band

This is a business of love and labor.

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Love, Business, Labor

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

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Through, Been, I Write, Write

The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do.

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Reason, Biggest, Fans

If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

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Me, Talk, Come, Fans

I don't go out and pick fights.

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Go, Out, Pick, Fights

As an artist, I want a reaction.

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Artist, Want, Reaction

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

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Trying, Prove, Even, After

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

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Cool

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