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We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.
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When you look at metal, it's probably one of the healthiest genres when you look at it in a worldwide perspective - every single country listens to metal.
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If you're going to put out a record just to get a No. 1 and then forget about it after the first week, it's the tail wagging the dog: it doesn't make any sense.
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Games helped me a lot when The Rev died. It was something I able to go do and stay in the house and not have to be outside and deal with people. But I also found a community online that I was able to escape the feeling I was having of losing a best friend.
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We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast enough to figure these answers out on our own, but we can do it through artificial intelligence. But there's also some very scary downsides that could come if we don't put the right safety precautions in there.
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No. 1 records are fine, but in 2016, they just don't mean as much any more - the currency has changed.
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We write music because we have to; it's a part of our very being.
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When we were writing the 'Stage' album, we realized we'd never really done proper covers, where we were taking songs and making them our own and kind of playing around with them. I came up with the idea of doing a cover of 'Wish You Were Here,' but we didn't really want it on the record.
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The reality is you either step into the future, or you become a dinosaur.
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We're really excited to be even talked about in the same breath as Foo Fighters or Metallica.
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A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.
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Unless someone physically tries to attack me, I don't care what anyone does.
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If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.
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Every once in a while, we can touch somebody's life in a way just by writing a melody or writing some music, which is always really special.
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I feel like our whole discography up through 'Hail to the King' was young, fun, and exciting. It was aggressively driven. 'The Stage' was the first step in the band becoming a more mature musical entity.
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I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!
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All I can say to people who don't think depression is a real thing, or say 'just suck it up and get over it' - they just really have no idea. You have to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're doing the best they can to get through it.
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For me, 'Far Beyond Driven' just had an oomph that kicked it over the edge and just pure aggression. And I always appreciated that.
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The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.
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We don't want to become like country artists where there's a formula.
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I think Kanye West is brilliant at what he does: he's got a different live show, different merch for every tour, different vibes, and he just puts out great records.
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If people respect us as artists, they know we'll give them something different every time; they know we're pushing ourselves.
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I've never made a comment on a message board in my life.
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The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
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