We write serious music, but we also are a real band where we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
If you’re in the music to move to Hollywood and be in ‘People’ magazine dating an actress or dating some Hollywood celebrity, are you into it for that side of it? Are you in it to be a millionaire? Or are you in it because you love it and you like playing music and you like going on tour? Chad Gilbert Read Quote
Every record from New Found Glory is a little different. We’re a real band that writes songs about our everyday relationships – like, our personal war, not war and government or politics. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
I remember going up to bands I’ve loved and tried to talk to them and been cold-shouldered. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
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. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
We did two nights at a place in Southern California that only holds about 500 people. It was really intimate… Everyone was in lingerie… OK, every time someone says a show was intimate, my head always goes there. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
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. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
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. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
I think one thing that’s amazing about ‘Resurrection’ is that we weren’t afraid to lay it all out there lyrically. Chad Gilbert Read Quote
