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(7 votes)   It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

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(4 votes)   Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

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(3 votes)   It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

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(3 votes)   Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there's nothing wrong with it.

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(8 votes)   I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

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(7 votes)   I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

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(6 votes)   Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.

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(6 votes)   We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

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(5 votes)   Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

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(5 votes)   We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.

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(4 votes)   I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

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(4 votes)   I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

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(4 votes)   That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

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(3 votes)   Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done.

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(3 votes)   I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

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