We definitely have a lot to prove. That fuels a lot of our passion. I don't hate our first record, but you listen to it and you can pick out the parts that you know you rushed.

One of the great things about music is that you can really help other people through rough times. If that makes us overemotional, then I guess that's what we are. If they want us to say sorry, we'll say sorry for them.

I tried to be a lot more personal with the lyrics. Some of them are definitely about heartbreak and girls, but a lot of them are about my father and his battles with alcoholism. That's how I like to listen to bands. I would like to know that the singer was actually going through that.

We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don't know why we should start now. We hope that we at least sell the same amount we sold of our last album. If it's more than that, great. We're on an independent label so we're not afforded the same things that major label bands are. We don't have the same outlets available to us, but we have different outlets that work for us that don't work for major label bands.

I'm not saying we will never sign to a major label, but we're happy where we are. I don't think we would have seen the success we're seeing on a major.

On Sunday, we would just lay and watch football and fall asleep.