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" People think this is a competition between bands, when the reality is the more successful bands the better. "

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" If you're going to put out a record just to get a No. 1 and then forget about it after the first week, it's the tail wagging the dog: it doesn't make any sense. "

" I listen to a lot of Pink Floyd, the Doors, Elton John, Sabbath, Metallica, GN'R, Megadeth - just classic rock, classic metal stuff. "

" Personally, I just want to hear good songs. "

" I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.' "

" We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica. "

" I recall us selling out L.A.'s 5,000-capacity Gibson Amphitheatre and flying straight to Germany to play a 300-capacity room where we'd only sold 120 tickets. This was when 'City Of Evil' was really taking off in the U.S., but it seemed like Europe was less interested. "

" The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person. "

" I'm kind of a geek when it comes to talking about chord structures or melody, so I always loved in-depth conversations with musicians about things. I also enjoy when a fan can just put something on, and they really know nothing about music other than they like it and it touches them in some way. "

" The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you will find, but when Apple music and digital options came out, like for everyone else, it was more conducive to my lifestyle. "

" When I'm by myself asking the questions that many of us do at some point in our lives, I look to the stars knowing that the answers are somewhere out there waiting to be discovered. "

" Always from day one, we were the band on Warped Tour with a fog machine, and our backdrop had to be up - everyone thought we were the biggest idiots for that, total posers. But for us, we wanted to be over the top. "

" We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast enough to figure these answers out on our own, but we can do it through artificial intelligence. But there's also some very scary downsides that could come if we don't put the right safety precautions in there. "

" We're trying to change the whole way our merch is viewed, in terms of just not a bunch of skulls interlaced; you know, every album can look the same, so they're going to be stylized and different. "

" The metalcore has been left behind. It's not something that any of us find enjoyment in listening to, so it's obviously not the direction we would write songs in. "

" I used to get a huge kick out of walking into a record store and finding something I didn't know was out. "

" I've never made a comment on a message board in my life. "

" Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house and not have to be outside and deal with people. But I also found a community online that I was able to escape the feeling I was having of losing a best friend. "

" I've said the Grammys messed up metal because it's not on TV. What I'm saying is when you're in a metal category, it's not televised, and it doesn't move the needle forward for metal artists, and I wish they had more respect for the genre. "

" Ever since 'Hail to the King,' we've been more cognizant of our chord progressions, our key changes, drama in songs, a lot of dynamics - we've really added a lot of that in there. "

" Everyone has an opinion, and everyone should be entitled to say whatever they want. "

" Usually, when you're putting out a record, you have reviews from people a week before, and you have a vibe 'cause everyone's heard it - you've heard feedback from everyone, and they've listened to your single for a couple of months. Radio's playing it. "

" We really like having songs where we think the arrangement is just as important as the melodies, even though they're typically not. "

" I know that sometimes we, as Americans, we reach outside of our means, and every once in a while we like to 'police the world,' but I think we do a lot of good as well. "

" It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music. "

" Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special. "

" What made 'Dark Side Of The Moon' so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it. "

" We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being. "

" We like to wait to a point where we have to get in there and write a record because we're just so built up. "

" We want metal to be dangerous again. How cool would that be? "

" Honestly, I never thought we'd get a nomination for a Grammy, period. To be honest, we felt that if we were ever going to get one, we thought we had 'City of Evil' and 'Nightmare' and 'Hail to the King,' and those were all big records, and they never even sniffed at us. "