 I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time. |
| I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it. |
| We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring. |
| I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home. |
| I try to stay positive by focusing on how much I'll appreciate my health if I get better. |
| It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on. |
| Basically, the reason I'm vegan is because when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I began to understand that we don't need to contribute to the killing and exploitation of animals to feed our bodies correctly. |
| Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records. |
| None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle. |
| Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control. |
| Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it. |
| I have never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring. I'm just not very good with people, and you meet people every night who expect you to be this rock star with these developed social skills, which I don't have. |
| The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done. |
| I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record. |
| I get very anxious and am scared in crowds and things like that. |
| We were perceived as a post-grunge band. |
| When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. |
| Reactive arthritis is something I've been dealing with for nearly a year. |
| I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing. |
| I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse. |
