How did you choose your tour mates?
Hey Monday, Cobra Starship -- we're friends with. All Time Low, they're really nice dudes. Metro Station is managed by a friend of mine. We're in the middle of a recession, [so] we wanted to have a really big bill, but one where everyone understood that we were going to keep the ticket price low. No one's out being rock stars. If you come to the show, you see all the bands on stage for the other bands playing, and you don't really see that a lot, so it's pretty cool.

50 Cent is playing some dates. How did that happen?
He approached us. He wants to branch out and reach a different audience, and we've never been a band that's shied away from something like that. I used to think bands only listen to bands that sound like them. It's the biggest myth that needs to be destroyed.

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