When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.
I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.
I think a lot of bands go on way past the point where they're relevant. Some of them keep doing it because they're making millions of dollars. Or people are afraid - they don't know what else to do. It's scary to get out of a relationship of any kind.
I'm not into bands for the sake of being into bands. I've grown past that. There was a time in my life when I was that guy.
When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.
There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.
A band's only unique thing is its chemistry, especially if none of you are prodigious players or particularly handsome. The one thing you have is your uniqueness, so we hold on to that.
Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.
Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.
It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
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