‘Great. I still think this is my favorite tour that I’ve been on. The bands and people were with, they’re all great. And we’re getting to see all these different countries we’ve never been to. I just got nothing bad to say about it.’

 

‘It did a lot. It was like a reflection of what happened in the past. It made you think about the direct and long term consequences. Before that we never had the chance to get in everyone’s head and truly understand each other. We needed it to know where things are. Like a full circle re-analyzation. Things are not perfect now but they are definitely in a spot were everyone is knowledgeable of situations that happened and try to not let them get to that point again. Personal situations but also for the group.’

 

 

‘Yeah, it’s human not to worry about anything until it’s too far gone and broke. But that’s not right. Maybe a typical scenario but we were able to pull it back on the road. Now we know how we got to where we were and try not to get there again.’

 

‘It has positive and negative sides. The odds of somebody going through something you’re going through are better over five then two. It’s sure easier for us to find somebody in our band that’s going through something then it is for Blink 182. They only have two guys left then, you know. But we’re six dudes and have six different stories. So in that way it kinda helps.’

 

‘I don’t know. I don’t know if it was really good or bad. I think it was probably good. In a sense that kids sort of knew why we left and… Sure everybody’s going to talk and spread all kinds of stuff around. There’s really not much you can do about that. But also in the same note, when we decided to get back on the road again, we were able to use it to our advantage. To let people know what was going on and that we’re doing much better now.’

 

 

‘Since I’ve known of the band that has been our main focus. We always said; whenever we became not about that, then we would just break up. I don’t necessarily think that you have to play music, and all music, for a Christian purpose. But I feel like this band is. If it ever became not, then were out there just doing something else.’

 

 

‘For me I don’t think there’s much religion involved. It’s more the knowledge. I don’t think you can really look out at life, or look at someone, or feel something towards someone and feel that that’s just something that we as humans have just made up. Like, I don’t think you can really look at the sky or mountains, trees or another person and think that we’re here by chance. Everyone has this knowledge of something greater. For me personally, and all of us in different ways, we all have seen that in God. And have seen that in Christianity. There are a lot of other religions that have a lot of really good things to say. And have a lot of positive influences in people. But in the end of the day I don’t feel like Jesus and God have created earth, created you and me, created humans and everything and then just be done with it. He created us to interact with us. And that’s where Buddhism and all these other religions kind of fall short. Here I feel like there’s a constant interaction with the creation and the creator. For me it’s more about the spiritual aspect and seeing God work in different ways. It’s more like feeling it and seeking it.’

 

‘Yeah, exactly. Like that guy in Cologne said, the time for just wondering is over. We need to start maturing and need to start knowing. That’s the whole thing. The purpose is to constantly know God more, know yourself more and know your purpose on this earth more. Know that there’s more then just a paycheck, a cell phone bill and three meals a day. There’s got to be more than that. More than life. Because if that’s all life is, I don’t want to be here. Cause it would be the end of the cycle.’

 

 

‘I think it makes you take the good as this is not as good as it gets. This is just a glimpse at what true love or true goodness is. That we one day will see what we feel when we kiss a woman, or when we’re hugging our friend, or see someone cry. It’s just a snap out of something greater. And when bad things happen I think it’s the same. But there’s always a light in the end of the tunnel. And that is just super encouraging out of both aspects for me.’

‘It makes it easier a lot of times. Doing what we do makes us able to get in contact with so many people I would’ve otherwise never been able to get in contact with. I learn things that I would not learn by sitting at home. There comes a lot of trouble with doing what we do, like missing home or things of that nature. But as a whole, doing what we do is beneficial to me.’

 

‘Oh no, not at all. The thing is, just like we said before, we’re a band, we get together to have fun and to play music. But the reason why we do what we do is because of what we believe.’

 

‘Haha, no it’s cool.’

‘That don’t changes anything for me. I mean, we’ve had Christians coming up to us saying this song or this record really helped them out doing this and it changed their lives. And then we have people who aren’t Christian saying the same thing. There are also people who come to us because they just like our heaviness and there are people who come to us because they can interact on a more extensive level. No matter what you believe or why you listen to us or why you don’t listen to us doesn’t really matter. The biggest walls we have culturally, and between religions or different races and believes, is that we don’t respect other people. We get afraid and we get stereotyped as if you’re this and you’re that. We don’t even give the person the time or day to explain why they believe what they believe and then turn just ignorant and blind. And then end up in just hating and judging each other. That’s one thing we all have seen in ourselves as well as against us and as have done it to other people. Everyday we’re learning more and more of that open-mindedness. Accepting everyone for what they believe or not believe is the only way to get on.’

 

‘I don’t see it as deep as that. We just make the kind of music we like. It’s not like a declaration of how we see the world. But lyrically, that would be on a completely different plane. Spencer writes the majority of lyrics. A lot of it is really personal to him as where he is going through, you know.’

 

‘Thank you man!’