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" If I'm proud of one thing in my playing, it's being able to slow it down and focus on the melody. "

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" I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today. "

" Everybody's lost somebody, and I think they all miss them incredibly. "

" Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters. "

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" My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he's kind of just this shredder that plays on my records sometimes. But they don't know his ear and how rich his harmonic scope is. "

" My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house. "

" During our formative years, it was all about, 'What did Metallica do?' and 'How do we do that?' and then you try and find an identity of your own, but they're still... They were the pioneers and the trailblazers. "

" I hate to debunk the myth - kids don't wanna hear it - but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft a little bit and hone it as much as possible. "

" We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there. And we get a little experimental in some of the deeper tracks. "

" As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more. "

" I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet. "

" I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it. "

" We have a lot of fun. There are no holds barred when it comes to writing music for us. "

" I'm a huge Weezer fan, and 'Pinkerton' is just a crazy, crazy neurotic album. "

" We're trying to leave no stone unturned, to push forward in every aspect of what it means to be a band. Because this really matters to us. Metal matters to us. And we know exactly how much it means to kids out there, too. "

" I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically. "

" I use Bogner amps and custom-designed Schecter guitars with Seymour Duncan Invader pickups. I beef up my tone with a Boss CS- 3 Compression Sustainer. It's kinda like my secret weapon. "

" We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make. "

" We're not gonna write a fusion song for Avenged Sevenfold, obviously, but I love having those elements and blending it in, and having the eclectic arrangements and stuff like that. "

" Korn is great friends of ours, so to be on tour with friends is usually our number one. We've been very blessed to meet a lot of great bands, successful bands, that we can go tour with. "

" Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way. "

" When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives. "

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" Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations. "

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" He happens to be my father and an incredible musician. When he gets lucky, we let him into the studio for 20 minutes to hear a song which has been previously written for him. "

" We have to do everything a hundred and ten percent when we're doing it. If we're on tour, we're constantly thinking of different ways to make the show better, or whatever it is. "

" When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind. "