Grammy
"There's no way to predict that. That's just like the icing on the cake."
"It's good that we're getting the respect of the people in the industry"
"It's kind of so important that I don't think I'd have it in my house. I'd stash it somewhere."
"I think the best part about it was the people congratulating us."
"Somebody told us that we couldn't do it on our first album, that we wouldn't be eligible, so we figured forget it, it's not even an option."
"I don't think we'll win, to be quite honest. The other bands have been around for so long - they've actually proven themselves. I have faith and confidence in our longevity too, but those guys have done it already. I don't know if that has anything to do with the voting, but to me, that means a lot. If it's just the music, the CD we're nominated for, we could win. But being in the industry, seeing all the work that's involved, you just can't compare it. Those guys have been around for years, and they deserve to win as well."
Carlos Santana
"He's an influence to me as a guitar player."
"It's always been a dream of mine to have Carlos Santana play with us. I know everyone says that now, but he really has been an inspiration for a long time."
"I firmly believe that I was conceived to his first album. He's been a part of my life ever since I can remember. His music speaks to me, especially his guitar playing. I got to meet him and jam with him in Corpus Christi in 1998, I believe, and that was like a dream come true. It's like being able to walk into your stereo."
"I don't want to sound too weird, but he showed up almost like an angel at the first show that Jorge didn't make. We're all backstage wondering what we're going to do,and at one point I was sitting in the dressing room by myself thinking 'We could do this, we could do that... God, how are we going to handle this?' So I'm there going out of my mind and the door opens - and Carlos Santana pokes his head in! He must have seen that I was deep in thought, so he just closed the door. I'm like, 'What was that? Am I seeing things?' Then the guys came in a few minutes later and we started talking. We were in a better mood, but we still had no idea what to do. I told him the story, that our drummer had just left us right before a show, and he said 'It wasn't about the music, man.' He gave us a little pep talk, a pat on the back and some really good advice."
"I think I was conceived to [Santana's] music. My parents are huge fans."
"Going up on stage with them was kind of surreal, like it was happening but it wasn't happening. You dream about things like that, but very seldom do you get to realize a dream like that."
Woodstock
"Woodstock was cool."
"We were on the Emerging Bands stage. It wasn't jampacked, there were people there, but what really helped us out was we were playing in the shade, so lots of people were coming in there to get out of the sun."
"We didn't see it(a mudfight) until we were right in the middle of it, we were in a van. I swear to God, those people looked possessed... running, jumping on the van, eyes this big... they were covered in mud. The van driver's going real slow, because they're pelting the van with mud. It was some sick shit."
"It was an experience because of all the people there. I mean, we've all gone to big concerts before, but these people were walking around naked! They were covered in mud, or with their breasts painted... you didn't know where to look!"
Watcha Tour
"The Watcha Tour was a great experience for us because we got to perform with a lot of Spanish rock talents, bands like Molotov..."
"They were pretty heavy bands we played with, and the first show we come out playing our ballads! [The crowd] just weren't expecting that. It didn't really fit in. By the second gig we caught on... we took the ballads out of the set list and did our more uptempo songs, and they were moshing to our guitar stuff. All tour long it was pretty consistent, it wasn't just in certain cities--they wanted to fuckin' rock! All the other bands were heavy as shit, so we had to sort of alter our show. We played a bit heavier."
"It was funny, We go out there thinking we're so badass, playing stuff like ¿Por Qué Te Fuiste? and they're making fun of us,doing stuff like this...(he does a comic imitation of people mocking the band by pretending they're waltzing to the music) We're like 'we're never fucking doing ballads again on this tour!'"
"If I didn't know what town we were in every day on that tour, I would have sworn we were in Mexico. They think they're being cool, but I don't get off on that. They were tearing things up and getting into fights and stuff."
"One gig, in El Paso, our heaviest shit wasn't heavy enough for them. All it takes is a few rowdy people to ruin a whole show. I didn't know how to handle it."
"On the Watcha tour it was kind of weird."
"Yeah, it got progressively better as we went west."
"I mean, it was a brand new tour.Everybody was learning as they went along and the diversity of acts and stuff like that was, cool I thought, but maybe some of the audience was there just to see one or two bands so every body else kind of suffered for that. You know what I mean? Cause they were kind of like, "hurry up, we're waiting for our act." And that's understandable, they paid their money to see who they wanted to see, but I could see it on other bands' faces too. They were like, okay we're going to go up there and do our thing and give it 100%, but [it was rough at times.]"