Who / what are your influences?

The lives that we lead, the conversations that we have. Friends that decide they don't like you any more. Just life in general, especially the negative parts.

The Prids tour quite extensively. How do you feel about being on the road so much?

We love it. We just came back from a US tour that lasted 3 months. You're back and the world looks different. There's a mental inertia that occurs. You become acclimated to being in a different place with different people everyday, and then suddenly everything is the same, you know what to expect, but your mind is still ready to receive all this new stimuli that isn't coming. So being at home, and not touring can be a bummer. Really depressing. So we book another tour. Mistina and I have been doing about 15+ weeks a year since 2001.

You guys come off as a band who's lives are very intertwined with the music. Would you agree? If so, how much has music affected your personal lives?

We're glad that it shows. It's truly everything Mistina and I do. It's our full time job. When we're not touring, we're planning the next, writing songs, playing the NW, talking about music. There's very little difference between our personal lives and our professional lives. We're just glad we're not accountants. No offense, accountants we're just sayin...

You use your music as a catalyst to promote positive change. An example that sticks out to me is your efforts supporting animal rights. Can you explain more about that?

In the beginning we were really concerned about mixing politics with music. I'm not sure why, other than we didn't want to sound preachy. We were and insecure. But being able to lend our support to causes that are very dear to us has been enabled us to help make a difference. And we're focusing more on it. Since the music is 100% of who we are, it's only natural it would come through.