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

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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 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. "

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" Just based on the primary adage of the necessity breeding innovation, it was just like 'Well, what makes me the guitar player that I am?' and I feel like I listen to so much different music, and I'm a student of so many genres of music, and I feel like it's fun to apply those things and anything super applicable to any type of music. "

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

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" It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have fun with what you're doing. "

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

" We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

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