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“Things are a little bit tense and weird right now but we’re trying to work it out and make sure these songs don’t get lost forever ‘cause I think they’re the best ones we’ve ever done.”

“I grew up in the ghetto where there were drugs, gangs and violence happening every day. I had to witness many things I wish I never saw."

“I really want to see The Beards, actually. I hope we’re not playing at the same time."

“I like a big band. I just enjoy the whole thing, you know, even though small bands are easy to take around on a tour. One reason I don’t play a lot is that it’s expensive to get a ten-piece band out on the road."

"Being on the road is a crazy lifestyle dude, it will drive you insane and will make you think crazy things…"

“We’re a family and we have many fights off stage and rehearsals are definitely tiring and troublesome sometimes, but when we come together and play a gig it all just falls away."

“It’s definitely shot a bit of life and put a bit of fire in it and everyone is feeding off each other, which is all you can ever want in a band.”

“Most bands don’t get to this point of being able to play something 35 or 38 years after they first made it. Playing these songs again, of course you end up thinking about why you did you do this stuff?"

“The type of record it was dictated that the live show had to change. So yeah, I put on a gold suit every night like an idiot and have a lot of fun."

"We’ve been listening to a lot of ‘90s rock and more alternative stuff so I’m sure that somewhere along the line that stuff would have influenced us. I’m not sure how, but I reckon that it would have.”

“I know a lot of people that simply have to make music. They realise at an early age that the world outside music is not for them and they will pursue music ‘til the day they die. I have other interests and responsibilities.”

“I’m writing a new record right now – I’ve written about three or four songs – and these songs are going to take a little more time because I’m having three background singers, so I have to write my parts and then I have to write the background singers’ parts too."