from interview 8/23/03
STAPP: It's definitely changed us. I mean, come on, we'd be lying if we said it hasn't. It's completely changed our life. My concerns, the things I get upset about, are not the same things I would get upset about seven or eight years ago. Has it changed my character, the kind of person I am, the way I treat people? No. And the band for me specifically can validate this. I'm the same exact way back then that I am now. I think it's changed them more than it's changed me--and let me clarify that: They're more confident, they're more secure, and they speak their opinions more. I'm so glad that now I'm not going, "OK, I want to do it this way and they're like. [head nodding], 'OK.'" I need feedback, something, you know? And now it's even more of a band than it was before. But from a character standpoint, we've never let any of this sink in, because if you let any of this sink in, I don't think your brain can handle it, and I think that's when you go off of the deep end. So it's all kind of a big joke. We mean the music, but just all of the peripherals and that extra stuff, it's not real, and you just gotta look at it that way.
See, he says he's always treated people the way he does now....
The entire interview may be found at..
http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/interviews....rtistID=1030760
cool site...