Quotes from Chad Gilbert

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

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.

Our shows are more fun when there aren't barriers.

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

All you truly need to worry about is waking up each day and to try to be the best version of yourself.

I think a lot of bands would just make a dark, bleak album, which is why we wanted to do the opposite. We wanted to let people know that there's hope out there, and that no matter how tough things get, they will always get better. I'm really proud of that.

I did play flag football. I actually got my lip busted. My team was really good; we won first place in the season, and won the Super Bowl. I was one of the defense guys. I was really good.

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.

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

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.'

'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.

We'd practice in my living room and it was awesome. Our parents were pretty supportive of it because they thought it was cute. I don't think they ever realized how far we would go with it.

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.

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.

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

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

The goal is never be a copycat of ourselves. It's more along the lines of taking risks in our music.

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.

You can't really predict what the fans love.

Nowadays, people get tattoos so easily, to look cool and only for fashion.

I don't think that a lot of my favorite producers or bands would produce our albums or even play on them, unfortunately.

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.

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 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.