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n ‘Here’s To The Heartache’ Jonny the day I personally believe that everything is our responses and I don’t think we have control
IHawkins sings, ‘What if I warned you, determined in a sense that it’s going to happen over what happens outside so the way that we
you can’t outrun your fate?’ Black Velvet be- the way it’s going to happen - but I think when respond to the things that happen to us actu-
gins by asking Jonny how he thinks fate has people hear that they think that automatically ally affect the way our lives play out later and
been for the band so far. He tells us that so far, then means that you don’t have any control in the way people treat us and the way things do
for the band, fate has been “very rewarding life. But I don’t think that that’s what it means happen to us, so it’s more of a long term con-
and very fulfilling”. exactly. I just think that it’s really an argument trol more than it is pressing a button and every-
If you look up the definition of fate in the about time, like looking into the future or look- thing around you changing.”
dictionary it says ‘the development of events ing into the past versus actually experiencing Nothing More became a band in 2003.
outside a person’s control’. It’s this subject that reality from moment to moment. I think you do Back then Jonny was the band’s drummer. He
really interests Mr. Hawkins. “I think the whole have control, you’re going to choose what took over the lead vocalist spot in 2008, while
argument or debate of free will versus fate or you’re going to choose but you do what you’re the guys announced their signing to Eleven
determinism is something that I probably think always going to do. I’m a compatibilist, techni- Seven Music, home of Papa Roach, Motley
about more than any other philosophical topic. cally. Crue, Sixx:A.M and Five Finger Death Punch,
It keeps me up at night, literally. But I find it re- “I do think we have control, in whatever in March 2014. They had originally released
ally fascinating because I think at the end of sense of that word you want it to mean, over their self-titled album in 2013. With Jonny once

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