We`re doing what we want to do, playing what we want to play, we`re looking like we want to look, we`re saying what we want to say. In rock that`s done a lot, but in country it`s not.

It was the wrong wording with genuine emotion and questions and concern behind it. [But] am I sorry that I asked questions and that I just don`t follow? No.

[The group`s involvement with Rock the Vote, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization founded in 1990, is an indirect result of the Bush uproar.] We never had intentions to become a political band but like it or not we have been placed on a unique political platform in the past months, ... We feel it would be irresponsible not to make something positive come out of that.

We finally got on the front row of an awards show,

They told me that you may not come, but I knew you`d come.

It`s a funny song and a funny video about a very serious topic. A lot of women die at the hands of their husbands.

This is our first time back in Europe since the `incident.

And we were, and it was awesome!

ecstatic about the news.

If I did that, Bush would call me a flip-flopper, ... So I`m sticking to it!

"Just so you know, we`re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas."