When we decide what's making the cut, we factor in how it works with the other songs. There isn't one guy who will bring a drunken idiot on our bus. There's a level of trust from being in a band and a road crew for a really, really long time. The guys in our band and road crew are all brothers. For the first 10 years, we hung out with everybody, everywhere we went. That's only because we've been touring for 17 years now. But that doesn't mean that I want to get to know them or hang out with them. We are totally grateful and privileged to have it that way. All you have to do is put on rock radio and hear one measure before you know you want to turn it off. There's like twelve generations later of bands ripping off bands that have ripped off shit that wasn't very good to begin with, you know? And it's really kind of a drag.

fuck man, you had no idea how much worse it was gonna get, but it's perpetuated itself with bands like Bush that were ripping off fuckin' Stone Temple Pilots.

At the time, I was being like a player hater, you know? Like, 'fuck this shit,' you know? And now, you hear the Stone Temple Pilots shit and it sounds great. And now looking back, those bands really aren't that bad. I remember hearing Pearl Jam for the first time and thinking, 'man these guys are fucking like Nirvana rip-offs, the guy sings like Kurt Cobain.' And then you hear like Stone Temple Pilots and it sounds like he's ripping off the guy from Pearl Jam. Well since like the early '90s, Nirvana kind of changed everything, you know? They were a great band.

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