We just came from the UK, the collective countries, and we flew straight into another UK.

I had to jump off and jump on a plane at the ranger's station airfield, flew straight down and walked off the plane into the awards ceremony,

Don't make music because that's what's cool. We almost started out doing that.

We didn't have a lot of good songs; we were all about just playing good live shows. We didn't even care about the music; that was secondary. We just cared about working real hard.

Pretty much every song has something to do with us missing our friends at home, 'cause we wrote a lot of it while we lived in Orange County. 'Sidewalks' is a lot about our friends back home in St. Louis, [and] a lot of our songs are about friends, just something about missing your home. I don't know. We're not too mad about anything. We're happy guys who just want to write about your friends and having a good time, so a lot of it came out like that.

Our first record wasn't really . . . I don't know . . . us. I mean . . . it had no feeling at all. People still loved the record, and that's awesome. But we didn't want to do that again. We wanted to sound like a real band.