It doesn't matter what people want to say on message boards, know what I mean? I don't pay attention to that stuff.

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.

I really feel like New Found Glory created a subgenre.

When we first came out it was this happy accident, and I was sort of into hardcore at the time. Jordan our singer was really into Jawbreaker and a lot of indie rock bands and old Dischord bands, and sort of like more of the indie side of music. Our bass player was really into West Coast punk.

I think one thing that's amazing about 'Resurrection' is that we weren't afraid to lay it all out there lyrically.

When we started, our style of music wasn't on MTV. It wasn't cool, and it wasn't popular. The only bands who were even kind of similar were Blink-182 and Green Day. But we don't sound like those bands, even if people throw us in that category now.

I swear, all we ever wanted to do was tour outside of Florida.

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.

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 don't change with the times because we write from the heart. We don't need to change our image to sell records because that's not why we do this.

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.

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?

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.'

We think of the Warped Tour as kind of like everyone's big birthday party.

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.

When you release a single like 'My Friends Over You,' people just think you have one kind of song.

I read comments where our fans say Geffen screwed up 'Coming Home,' they screwed New Found Glory, but that's not really true. Maybe Geffen didn't have the right tools or whatever to get it to the kids, and internally, there were a bunch of changes going on at the label when our record came out, so I don't know if it's anyone's fault.

If we meet some people that are in love with NFG that are a major label, then we'll sign with them. If we meet people that are in love with NFG that are an independent label - and they have a plan - well, then we'll sign to them. It's completely up to us.

I think one of the reasons people are so passionate about our band is because we're so accessible.

Yeah, we might have a video on 'TRL,' but when you go to the Warped Tour you're going to see us walking around in the crowd and hanging out with kids because we treat our fans like we wanted to be treated when we were going to shows.

Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.

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.

For me and MTV, it was always the MTV year-end countdowns. It was what I'd look forward to honestly every year just as much as Christmas. When Christmas was over, the top 100 videos of the year would lead up to the ball drop.

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.

So many bands have the same performance-based videos, and it's so lame. I know bands whose labels rent a crowd, so they have these fake audiences that jump up and down trying to make it look like a pit or something.

If you watch old Cars videos, they don't make any sense. They're just fun to watch. There doesn't need to be storyline, and you don't need to know why anything is happening.

All we do when we're not making music is play video games, eat food and see movies.

We have awesome and loyal fans. They'll buy our CD, then buy three more copies for their friends.

Kids don't want to hear the same record. There are a hundred million bands that they could listen to; you want to give them something that they've never heard before.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

Though we love the big exposure, our true love and passion is for the intimate club shows.

There are parts in albums where I wrote a lot of the lyrics. There are parts on albums where Steve wrote a lot of the lyrics, even albums where Steve did the majority of the lyric writing. Then there were albums like 'Coming Home' where I did most of the chorus lyric writing. But it was always split.

Epitaph is the place to be! They were all longtime, true fans of New Found Glory and they understand us.

We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

I remember Green Day came down and played this South Florida club called the Plus Five. I think I was too young to go - I think I was 12 or 13. It was before Green Day were on a major label, but I loved them because they were this band who were a punk band, but they had melody.

With the first album, we felt people didn't really understand our band.

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.

I know a lot of people feel pressure with their major label sophomore CD and having to follow up their first record real good. Well, we didn't have that pressure, because we have a real loyal fanbase, not a fanbase because we're on the radio, know what I mean?

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.