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I love pumpkin pie.
I travel for theme parks.
You can't really predict what the fans love.
Our shows are more fun when there aren't barriers.
It's nice to have fans who want and need our music.
I really feel like New Found Glory created a subgenre.
I swear, all we ever wanted to do was tour outside of Florida.
People don't know what star-struck is until they've met Tom Hanks.
Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.
I don't smoke, drink, or do drugs, so those are the values I live by.
We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!
We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.
Nowadays, people get tattoos so easily, to look cool and only for fashion.
Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N' Roses' 'November Rain.'
All we do when we're not making music is play video games, eat food and see movies.
Though we love the big exposure, our true love and passion is for the intimate club shows.
I always looked up to Billie Joe because every song on Green Day's albums was catchy and good.
I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.
We have awesome and loyal fans. They'll buy our CD, then buy three more copies for their friends.
When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.
The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.
All you truly need to worry about is waking up each day and to try to be the best version of yourself.
Epitaph is the place to be! They were all longtime, true fans of New Found Glory and they understand us.
Actually my favorite singer of all time is Bjork. And my favorite band of all time is They Might Be Giants.
I think one thing that's amazing about 'Resurrection' is that we weren't afraid to lay it all out there lyrically.
It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.
I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.
The band will always be our number one, and I don't see it ever stopping. We love playing, so why would we want to stop?
Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.
We walk around Warped Tour all the time and I swear to you, kids are like, 'Hey, that looks like the guy from New Found Glory.'
All our old record reviews were like, 'Oh, these skate punk kids, blah, blah, blah.' And I don't skate, and we're not skate punks.
When you reflect on your life, you realize how arguments, pride, and the worry of proving yourself never changed or fixed anything.
We played some of our first big shows at Wayne Firehouse and Manville Elks Lodge. New Jersey's always been our home away from home.
Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's always been.
I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's a pretty big deal.
'Nothing To Say' is a song for friend circles that struggle with a member of that circle who seems to never have anything good to say.
So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.
We obviously need to make money to survive, but we aren't going to sacrifice our creative integrity to do anything that doesn't feel like us.
In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.
For us, punk rock and even hardcore music was something we did because we didn't fit in in high school. We had nowhere to go, so we went to shows.
'My Friends Over You' has two guitars, but if you listen to us live, it's the same... I know how to hit a rhythm note and play lead at the same time.
Hazen Street knew I wasn't going to be able to be in the band once it got started. It was fun to be a part of, but New Found Glory is my full-time thing.
We had such a huge fan base, they couldn't ignore us anymore. MTV was playing us on 'TRL.' We even did a TRL-sponsored tour that was Good Charlotte and us.
You think of your first album, when we had no clue what we were doing, we had no clue if people were going to like it or not, we did it because we love it.
It's kind of cool being at a poker table with the guys from NOFX, a guy from Bad Religion, a guy from Lagwagon, all these cool punk bands you've always dug.
The scene in South Florida when we were growing up, it wasn't divided. It wasn't different scenes. If you played loud or crazy music, you were on the same show.
We've always existed regardless of how popular our band is. We've been around for a while, and we can tour regardless of whether there's a single on the radio or not.
When we started playing our music, there weren't really many bigger punk bands. We wrote for ourselves. We weren't expecting to get a record deal or get on the radio.
We first wrote the song 'Resurrection,' and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and stronger, and you learn a lot.
To someone who's more of a surface fan, their favorite songs are the singles. But, we're the kind of band where a lot of the songs that aren't the singles are crazier live.