Top 40 Chad Gilbert Quotes

I’ve got this inflatable Darth Vader that I stole off the roof of a Burger King. I went in and asked the girl at the counter if I could have it, and she said she didn’t care, but she wasn’t going to get me a ladder or anything like that. So I just kind of pulled myself up there, cut it loose and took off.

We write serious music, but we also are a real band where we don’t take ourselves too seriously.

I know a lot of people feel pressure with their major label sophomore CD and having to follow up their first record real good. Well, we didn’t have that pressure, because we have a real loyal fanbase, not a fanbase because we’re on the radio, know what I mean?

I always looked up to Billie Joe because every song on Green Day’s albums was catchy and good.

Though we love the big exposure, our true love and passion is for the intimate club shows.

All of our songs, no matter what record they’re on, mean a lot to us.

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

Those who have to struggle with addiction in their lives know the ‘you only live once’ mentality doesn’t really work because you can only do that for so often before you’re self-destructive.

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.

So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn’t matter, as long as we’re still playing and kids are coming to our shows.

We first wrote the song ‘Resurrection,’ and it felt perfect for the album title. Through resurrection, most things come back better and stronger, and you learn a lot.

We’ve always existed regardless of how popular our band is. We’ve been around for a while, and we can tour regardless of whether there’s a single on the radio or not.

I was on a cruise with my grandma when I was a kid. I remember winning $10 on the slot machine.

I still get excited for band practice, like I love when we’re about to go on tour and we all get together and practice. I’m so excited, it’s like the first day of school. You check out everyone’s new backpack.

Some of my favorite songs are slow songs, like Guns N’ Roses’ ‘November Rain.’

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

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.

‘My Friends Over You’ has two guitars, but if you listen to us live, it’s the same… I know how to hit a rhythm note and play lead at the same time.

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.

Because of social media being such a marketable format, things are constantly being released, so people don’t pay as much attention because they have a million things being thrown at them. You reach more people, but now there’s more content. Before, it was harder to get the people but there was less content.

All of the records are direct reflections of how we were at that time in our lives, so when we play them, it’s very nostalgic and fun, but also it’s cool to see that they all still sound really relevant.

I realized music is the most important thing to me and I love writing songs, and I think I had more to say in life.

I’ve been badly shocked before. I grabbed the mic to talk – it was near an outlet and there was water. I got shocked, and the jolt went from my head to my feet, shutting down my body and I just passed out. My friends woke me up and took me to the hospital.

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.’

I love pumpkin pie.

‘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.

You can’t really predict what the fans love.

In our band, every member has input, but me and Steve do the majority of the writing. We start the songs, the rest of the band help us finish it.

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

I remember going up to bands I’ve loved and tried to talk to them and been cold-shouldered.

We aren’t just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

I’m involved in a lot of different things, like producing, starting a label and writing songs. But still my biggest release, and the easiest and most fun thing for me to do in my life, is to be in New Found Glory, go on stage and play these songs.

It’s nice to have fans who want and need our music.

When you’re recording a ninth studio album, you can’t fail. You don’t really have any fears. You just make the best record that you like. You hope your fans are gonna like it, but if they don’t, they have eight other ones to listen to.

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

When you release a single like ‘My Friends Over You,’ people just think you have one kind of song.

I really feel like New Found Glory created a subgenre.

We don’t change with the times because we write from the heart. We don’t need to change our image to sell records because that’s not why we do this.

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.