Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

Being a new band, I just can't think of a better way to get your name out to all of the Hard-Rock crowd than playing with twenty of the biggest Hard-Rock bands in the world.

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

Hopefully people can look at our band and see that we're a heavy rock band. We're definitely not a metal band, but we're a band that focuses on meaningful lyrics and melody.

You have to make sure that your assets and your back is protected before you make any big decisions.

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.

We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.

Money spent, will never out value spent time.

A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off, roused me into productivity and creativity.

A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope.

I was cured all right.

Championships are not won on the night of a big event, but years before by athletes who commit themselves daily to championship principles

I try to identify myself with the atoms ... I ask what I would do If I were a carbon atom or a sodium atom.

Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

Writing is a great love of mine.

A God wise enough to create me and the world I live in is wise enough to watch out for me.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.