QUOTES!!
* "Who was the fool, who the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death."
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* "I want to cause every emotion in people. I want them to fight, to fuck; I want to bring out their violence, their sadness, and their happiness."
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* "Yo, there are some sexy motherfuckers out here tonight! I would just like to say, Welcome to my house I'm gunna fuck all of you tonight!"
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* "We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels."
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* "This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band."
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* "We really refocused ourselves. I didn't want to live my life in a dark shadow all of the time."
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* "It's kind of cool that we've quietly been selling a million albums. We knew (the album) wasn't going to debut at No. 1. I'm stoked to see us being successful again."
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* "I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes. We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record. It's been us just slugging it out in the trenches and playing shows and proving to people every day that this band is legit and we're not going away."
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* "With the single crossing over to pop radio, it's bringing out new people to the shows. We've got all our metal kids and punk kids who still love us. And then we've got the average joes coming out. We call our fans the 'mixed nuts' because it's all kinds of people out there."
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* "For us, selling a million records in 2005 is the equivalent of selling 2 to 3 million records (five years ago). Rock records aren't flying off the shelves like they used to. Hip-hop and pop are so huge. (But) everything's on the upswing for us."
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* "VIVA LACUCARACHA!!!"
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* "Protons and electrons always cause explosions."
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* "I deal a lot with the line between good and evil. And I tiptoe down that line myself. I have a side that's responsible, a part that knows right from wrong, and I have my punk rock, 'fuck everything' side."
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* "I think this record definitely shows some growth as musicians and artists but we don't take ourselves too seriously, like 'this is our more mature record', but it is always an evolution. If you want to call it mature, thats cool. But for me it is just rock and roll!"
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* "The rapping's gone. I dont feel like rapping anymore. I'm just over that, I just want to be a rocker. It's what I wanted to be when I was a kid."
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* "I'm super-flamboyant, super-happy, and super-pissed-off. I'm off the hook at shows. I've done stupid things where our lawyer was going, 'You can't be doing that!' but I've also hugged a million kids. How Nirvana was when they came out - that new edge of giving kids a release of emotions - that's how I hope people connect with Papa Roach's music."
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* "My father was a Vietnam veteran and they were treated like shit when they got home. I don’t support the war or Bush, but I support our troops; I want them to come home soon."
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* "I'm not looking for sympathy, just understanding."
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* "I was just frustrated from playing in front of rows of chairs every night with 40-year-old guys with their arms crossed going, 'We want Ozzy, we want Ozzy!'"
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* "There was one show where I was so sick of the crowd it made me want to just destroy them. So I pulled my pants down, took a shit on a towel and threw it in the crowd because that's how I felt about the show."
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* "We knew where we wanted to go," Shaddix says. "It was just a matter of honing it and getting it perfect."
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* "When we wrote 'Getting Away with Murder,' we were trying to find who we were as a band. There was a level of confidence there, but after playing it live, touring, getting a solid fan base and getting our success back--not on the strength of hype, but on good songs and a good show--we went back into the studio and the writing of this record with a new sense of confidence. That was one of the key elements in writing this record, because we weren't scared of doing anything. We always wanted to live in a house together, because we're all Red Hot Chili Peppers fans, and watching 'Funky Monks,' the making of 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik,' when I was like 16-17, I was like, 'That's a rock 'n' roll dream to be lived.'"
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* "We went into the Paramour Mansion knowing that we were going in to live a dream. It was kind of a rediscovery of who we are as a band, who we are as people, who we are as musicians... We wanted to write a real hard-edged, straight-ahead, four-to-the-floor, savage rock 'n' roll record. Then, when we started to jam, we had jam sessions that would last, like, seven, eight hours, and we tapped into something besides what we expected to come out of us. We wrote songs like "Forever," "What Do You Do," "Reckless," songs that are so far removed from anything we've ever done as a band. Stuff that's got a big-rock feel to it."
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* "There were moments where we were like, "Fuck, dude, what are our fans going to think of this?" but then the reality hit and we realized that we were doing something that feels right, and we couldn't not explore that side of our band because we feel we're going to disappoint somebody."
"We owe it to ourselves to explore, and that's the freedom of music. That's why I'm in this band. The way I look at it, the artists and the musicians that I look up to the most are the artists and the musicians that take the greatest risks to evolve, like Red Hot Chili Peppers when they released "Under the Bridge."
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* "For us, The Paramour Mansion had a spirit about it. There was something that was bigger than us. We have never jammed like we jammed when we got into this house."
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* "In the years and years that we've been playing together, we never stepped into a room and played for six-seven hours straight, just being creative."
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* "There were times I was just lyrically stuck, and I'd go down to Daisy's grave--the lady buried on the property there at the mansion --and just write whatever comes to me. I wrote a song called "Forever" down there, and also "My Heart is a Fist." When I'd get stuck, I'd walk around the property and go find the lyrics.... We all went into the depths of our own fears and our own selves and ran from our fears, and faced our fears."
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* "We were in a pretty volatile state when we made this record, because a lot of us were going through a lot of personal shit. It all came out on this record."
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* "I'd say that this is the most personal band record {The Paramore Sessions}, as a whole--there's love on this album, there's sexuality on this album, there's fucking violence on this record, there's sex, drugs, and rock and roll, there's fear, there's fuckin' strength. Every experience that we could experience as a group of people, we experienced in that house {Paramour Mansion}. We cried. We fought. There were sleepless nights. We kind of got scared of who we were for a little while in that house, and coming out on the other side of making the record, I think getting lost in ourselves was the best thing that we could have done."
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* "First and foremost, I want to write songs, lyrically and melodically, that you could sing along with. Going in with that intention and being able to execute that on this record was really fucking cool. We weren't just writing heavy shit for the sake of having heavy shit; it was heavy shit because we wanted to write it. And good stuff, that you can sing along with, but with also a pop sensibility. We look at ourselves as the band that tries to walk that line between metal, hardcore, punk rock and pop music, you know what I'm saying? We do our best at trying to make it tasteful."
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* "My oldest is four, and my youngest turned two the day after the record came out. Those are my little sidekicks! Being a father is my rock. Being a father has taught me unconditional love, and that's extended to how I feel about the people in my band. I love them like they were my kids, in a way, you know what I'm saying? It doesn't matter what you do, I'm always going to love you. P-Roach, we put each other through the fucking ringer. Go ahead and go off the deep end, and I'll still be here for you. And that's exactly what's happened lately. We have to look out for each other, and to that end, being a father has taught me a lot about being compassionate and understanding of people."
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* [Opening for Guns N' Roses] "It's going cool, man. We just jumped on and have done three shows so far. It's been a while since we've been on an arena stage, so it took, like, two shows to really become comfortable on that stage again. The first two shows were good, but the third show was magic, we fucking ripped it up, the crowd was great, and the response was awesome.... In the beginning, we didn't know how we'd approach it, because we'd been in theaters for a while, but once we got the rhythm going, we slayed. To get back in that environment, it's like the carrot in front of the rabbit--I want to get here again!"
