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" We spend a lot of time with MIDI keyboards and various processors, and we just figure it out. And all those things you hear in our songs work as submelodies and countermelodies, and everything has to fit. "

" 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. "

" We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal melodies because the lyrics don't come until later. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we rehearse intensely. And I have a guitar pretty much in my hand for at least five hours before doing a show. I'm just noodling and mucking around and working on some of the songs here and there. "

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

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

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

" I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a big-effects sort of guy - I like to keep it simple. "

" 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 think, back when I was younger, I was a lot more confident about certain things that I would write, and I didn't need the band's blessing or agreement; I would just kind of fight for it 'cause I knew it was good. And then the problem with getting older, especially when there's some success involved, you have a different measuring stick. "

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

" I wouldn't be one-third of the player I am today if it wasn't for Avenged. They're an inspiring group of guys, and I'm constantly challenged to write things beyond my ability and then figure out how to play them. "

" 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. "

" The thing about me is that I'm very fortunate to have had the opportunities with Avenged Sevenfold in songwriting. I really think it's helped to bolster my guitar playing as well. "

" We make sure we have total artistic control with our albums. We were working with Interscope Records, and they had a hard time with us having all the control. So when we signed with Warner Bros., we told them we would be working hands-on with our producer, and they were cool with it. "

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

" I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums. "

" 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. "

" I learned sweep picking from a variety of sources. One was a Frank Gambale instructional video, but he executes his sweeps a little differently. "

" 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. "