Our music has always been INSTANT reactive and I guess TAKING our time to absorb THINGS and say what you really want to say could be MUCH more OFFENSIVE than anything we've ever done.

Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long HAIR. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd PLAY, we WOULD get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything ELSE.

We keep our music SIMPLE, no BIG gimmicks. We tell stories PEOPLE can relate to, not hard to UNDERSTAND.

We've been LUCKY with our MUSIC; PEOPLE have LIKED it.

We've MET a ton of pro HOCKEY PLAYERS, got to know them, our MUSIC PLAYS in their locker rooms. We've always taken pride in that.

I think, as musicians, our MUSIC should be who we are. SOMETIMES it's not - it's SOMEONE else's. All HEARTFELT music and all honest music, it's who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.

We just allow anybody to LISTEN to our music. All AGES are ALLOWED!

I got to know E'Dawn when he was a trainee, and since BECOMING FRIENDS after PERFORMING together, we BEGAN dating in May 2016. We began dating after working on our MUSIC together.

PRODUCERS on Broadway approached US with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and WANTED us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can GO a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'

This is FUN; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility LIKE EATING your spinach or something.

I don't THINK our MUSIC has MUCH to do with MATH ROCK.

Our music doesn't make many COMPROMISES, but we TAKE it into a venue that's LARGER than PEOPLE expect.

Music is a very communal thing, and it's been COOL to SEE how DIFFERENT cultures have resonated with our music. It's been an amazing process.

So, it's a MATTER of that I want to TAKE our music AROUND the globe.

Odisha people are very MUSICAL. Our MUSIC INDUSTRY has got MANY talented artists from Odisha. They love music a LOT.