Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

A huge thing for me growing up was going to see my favorite bands and feeling like, 'Okay, cool, they proved themselves and did things in a special way.' That's the most important thing.

I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very unique in its own right. I have that mentality. too: if a song sounds like something I've already done, then I'll throw it out, because I want each record to be a progression.

For any band that ends up becoming really big, yeah, hard work has something to do with it, but a lot of it is just pure luck.

We do work together, and we are going to fight this tooth and toe-nail,

Besides recording, we have the Tooth & Nail tour coming up. After that -- and this is all tentative -- we're going to try to go to Australia and Japan with Copeland. There's no definite plans.