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are all positive characters for New Years Day. nbreakable’ and its songs have had to have that from the fans is really gratifying.
"Absolutely. I'd like to say there is no way ‘Ua great impact on New Years Day’s I suppose you get into rock ‘n’ roll because
you can be too strong, but I guess that can fanbase. of the look and the party, but then you hear
eventually turn into cockiness, but ab- "The thing you hear the most is people something like that from someone and
solutely, especially the bond which this cur- coming up and saying this song or this you're ‘Wow. No, this is the real reason why
rent line-up of the band has right now. It's so album really helped me out or helped me we do this. That is the real reason why we
solid and so awesome, you know, fuck with through this relationship or it did this to me, keep on, why we give up normal lives for
us, go ahead, try it! which is so cool and humbling to hear be- this’."
"It's almost like having a stable house- cause when you are up on stage you're this Looking to his own life, Nikki has had
hold and that camaraderie is important. With wild rocker and then to come off stage and music by his side through the ups and
musicians you are almost expected to come hear things like that, it brings you back down downs.
from unstable households or be emotionally to earth and reminds you of the real reason "Especially in my life, music has always
unstable so to have this kind of stability, es- why you do this. So yeah, you see it in per- been a significant factor and something of a
pecially when you are so far from home, is son and you read it a lot online and it's still soundtrack to my wild ride of a life! And
always nice." one of those very surreal things. You almost there are plenty of things I can relate to,
don't believe it. You're like ‘Are we cool?’ So when I was growing up, getting into trouble

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