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

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

" We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those. "

" I'm glad that we can add something new to the fold that Metallica's not going to bring to the table, and they're going to do what they do. "

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

" I wanna write a classic metal record, a classic rock record, in 2013. "

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" Metal needs to be exposed to more people, so it's good for rock if there's bigger bands. "

" 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. "

" When you think of rock and roll and metal, a lot of it is based around the riff. If you can sing over the riff and what the arrangements are going to be like, you have to leave space for what most people consider one of the most key essential parts, which is the vocalist. "

" Most people know we're kind of one of the only bands around right now that will admit that we're Republican. "

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" I went to this vocal coach, Ron Anderson, who has worked with Axl Rose and Chris Cornell, to train my voice and learn a whole new way of singing. "

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

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" A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me. "

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