We should surpass 50,000 next week. Our intent wasn't to go out as a headliner right yet, but that is how it worked out, and so far, this tour is going great.

We wanted to move somewhere that sounded like it had a good music scene. We also kind of wanted to move to the West Coast for something different.

It was somewhere in North Carolina, and the waitress there was the first one to tell us about what had happened that morning, with the bombings. But it wasn't until later, when we stopped at a Target store, before we saw the TV footage. Needless to say, it was a really weird time -- we actually had to drive around a lot of places, and our parents wanted us to turn around, but we kept at it, and it ended up working out. But if we had left a day later, who knows what might have happened.

I hadn't seen these guys since Athens, but it seems like we picked up right where we left off, just goofing around and having fun, ... These guys will always be my brothers. I'm trying to stay in contact with them.

He shot and put it right up over my shoulder.

A lot of people I know have jobs already. They're going right into something as soon as they leave school.