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We interact with the crowd, turn it into a party.
Breaking Benjamin, they're such incredible songwriters.
Lyrically, 'Nightmare' is an absolute masterpiece to me.
I'm not a big-effects sort of guy - I like to keep it simple.
My little brother played drums, so we had a drum set over at my house.
Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.
We tried our best for so long to make the heaviest record we could make.
If you want to do things right, you have to dig deep for that inspiration.
When people tell me I am better than I think I am I feel good about myself.
I don't like being locked in a cage on the creative scale. I need an outlet.
I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous.
I'm a huge Weezer fan, and 'Pinkerton' is just a crazy, crazy neurotic album.
Bullet for My Valentine, we're bros. We've been in the trenches with those guys.
I am an intelligent drunk because an intelligent drunk carries his liquor with him
I used my Schecter for all my rhythms and most of my solos, certainly the fast solos.
We have a lot of fun. There are no holds barred when it comes to writing music for us.
I find that drummers are the coolest people in the world. I play a little bit of drums.
Maybe we'll do some fun stuff here and there, but I don't want to record any more songs.
I try to, at least, think very melodically, and my band forces me to think very melodically.
If I'm proud of one thing in my playing, it's being able to slow it down and focus on the melody.
My favorite punk rock song is 'Linoleum' by NOFX. That's pure harmony, the coolest chord changes.
I don't really play a lot of slide in general, but it was fun getting into that style and exploring it.
All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.
I don't feel like we have that Paul McCartney gene, and I think the cool thing about us is that we know it.
We wanted to do something really, really different, something next level, and use new technology and things.
Our music is being played on MTV and the radio. That's something that still blows us away. And we did it our way.
I was living out of my truck for a short while. My dad wanted to emancipate me at 16 and send me to music college.
As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.
There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of a family-business thing.
I hope we're not the last of the Mohicans when it comes to putting on a big, crazy, over-the-top theatrical rock show.
When kids invest their time and money in coming to see us, we owe it to them to give them the best night of their lives.
We really wanted to circumvent that online learning curve, where it's virtually impossible to use words to explain music.
I can't imagine doing anything cooler or better than what we did on 'The Stage' and felt like we're firing on all cylinders.
We're more about other things over odd timings: orchestration, composition, horn/vocal arrangements - that's where we get super weird.
If you write a country song, and it's the best song you've ever written but throw it out because you're a metal band, you'd be an idiot.
Breaking Benjamin, talk about songwriting, I mean, some of the greatest songwriters of the modern era. And, obviously, it's a little heavier.
I learned sweep picking from a variety of sources. One was a Frank Gambale instructional video, but he executes his sweeps a little differently.
Sometimes, with more progressive songs, you lose that feel somewhere along the line, but 'This Means War' never quits - the energy is always there.
Rolling Stones came later for me. I was a Beatles guy. All of us were pretty much more along the lines of Beatles guys than we were Stones or Elvis.
I am a product of an amalgamation of different teachers. If it was just one teacher, even just my father, I would be half the player that I am today.
It's really fun to just get on a bike and just go and, I guess in a way, to be able to leave the tour and not be confined and all that kind of stuff.
I hate to debunk the myth - kids don't wanna hear it - but as songwriters, you have to polish your craft a little bit and hone it as much as possible.
Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform.
Usually when we go in to cut demos, one of us will lay down some mumbling sort of stuff for the vocal melodies because the lyrics don't come until later.
It's very important to focus on the music first. That's always number one. But after that, it's extremely important to just have fun with what you're doing.
We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there. And we get a little experimental in some of the deeper tracks.
I think it's beneficial to practice with a metronome or drum machine in order to strengthen your sense of time. It will help your concept of time and improve your feel.
Some people will basically just shred all over everything, even a ballad. I'm glad I wasn't born with that genetic chip - the need to just wheedle-whee all over the place.
When we do find someone we trust, like our tour manager, they become an official part of the band. We take our time to make sure whoever we trust has our best interest in mind.
When practicing, it's great to break a part down into its different elements, start slowly, and then try to build up the speed until you're playing as fast as you possibly can.