So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we`re kind of an international phenomenon.
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that`s part of the beauty of Athens: is that it`s so off the map and there`s no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.