Sara: For the record state your name and what you do in Paramore:
Hayley: Hey, I’m Hayley I sing
Josh: I’m, Josh I play guitar
Zac: I’m Zac I’m annoying and I play drums
Jeremy: I’m Jeremy, I play bass.

Sara: What would you change about the current music scene?
Hayley: Um… wow. I wish it was easier for great bands to actually do big things. There are a lot of really great bands that struggle for a really long time trying to get heard. Of course you’ve got things like myspace and that makes it a lot easier so that’s sorta a completely different side to it so that makes music so easily accessible but um I sometimes I think that really great bands get lost in the shuffle… and uh yeah! That’s really the only thing I think right now there is such a great community with all the bands… especially here at warped tour… it’s probably really evident and I love that about the scene.

Sara: Last week your CD sold 16k did you ever expect Riot! to do this well and did you ever think Paramore would be this successful?
Josh: I don’t know I don’t think we ever really planned on this. We wanted this record to be successful obviously but we really didn’t... we weren’t really expecting it... it’s totally a surprise that we sold that many records.
Jeremy: If you think about it… that’s a lot of records,
Josh: So we are definitely excited.

Sara: With the success of All We Know Is Falling did you feel that people had high expectation for Riot!?
Hayley: You go!
Josh: I think definitely. I feel like all of our fans were expecting something you know. I feel like any band… their sophomore album should be a step up from their last one because otherwise it’s all the same thing and that doesn’t interest anybody and you have a lot of fans that went out and bought your record and wanted to hear something new. So yeah there were definitely a lot of expectations but I think our fans dig it.
Sara: Were you worried about the sophomore slump?
Josh: YES! We were very very very worried. We were scared. Yeah, it’s tough. We were proud of our first record there were plenty of times when we were like ‘man is this going to be as good as our first one.’

Sara: Nowadays it’s pretty inevitable that CDs are going to leak, Riot! got leaked I’m pretty sure you guys know that, how does this effect your band?
Hayley: Actually, I was expecting a much worse leak. It only leaked like a week and half before it was released and we were just waiting months in advance of the release jut to hear, to get a text message or an email saying “well the record is out.” To our surprise it didn’t… it did really well in terms of leaking and stuff. I don’t, honestly I don’t think there’s are probably some people that would have bought it had it not leaked but they already had it so they decided not to but we were so blown away by the numbers and support in the first week even that we are not too down about it

Sara: What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of releasing a CD right before you go on something like Warped Tour?
Jeremy: I think so of the disadvantages are the fact that you are not going to have the same effect on the crowd because if they don’t know your lyrics and if they don’t know your songs and everything then they are not going to be as excited and jumping around singing the songs that’s one of the disadvantages and one of the advantages is there are so many people at Warped Tour that it’s easy to really push your album and sell it, it helps a lot.
Zac: It’s the best place to sell merch too is Warped Tour. There are so many kids seeing so many different kids and so many new kids see your bands. That’s one of the advantages so many new kids see your bands and they are like ‘oh they have a new record too’
Jeremy: They can just walk right around the corner and buy our CD so it’s really good.

Sara: After this you are going to go on tour with The Starting Line, I heard, what are you expecting to happen with this tour, what it’s going to be like?
Hayley: Well… it’s going to be really interesting because obviously they are an older band they have been around for a little longer or a lot longer then we have. I think they’ve got a little bit of an older fan base. It’s going to be fun playing to different crowds every night. At the same time hopefully they can gain some of our fans and we can gain so of their’s. I think it could be a really cool kind of trade off kind of thing and we love their music you know they seem like great guys we’ve hung out with them I think once or twice, not a lot but they are awesome. We’re stoked.

Sara: I know on your last San Francisco date a fan gave you a secret project, when people give you these things how do you feel and what did you think about this certain project?
Hayley: Are you talking about the book project?
Sara: Yeah.
Hayley: It’s means a lot to us that our fans care enough that they want to give us something that means a lot to them and the project, I guess it was everyone from the LiveJournal and it was a sort of a second response to a post that we did in January it was like “What are you ashamed of” the fact that, it’s something that people are still thinking about because of that one post means a lot to us. It’s not like we are trying to go out and be role models and be like ‘oh live like us cause we did it right’ the fact that we do have the opportunity to speak into people lives about whatever they want to know about and I’m glad that they were able to give us something that we are able to learn from.

Sara: Do you have any good tour stories that you’d like to share?
Josh: Well, this one time we were in California, it was actually last Warped Tour and we were swimming and the front desk said it was open all night and I guess it closed and the security guard was like ‘uh the pool is closed’ and we were like ‘they told us the pool was open all night’ and they were like ‘well let us check, we’ll check with them’ and they came back and they were like ‘are you guys a band’ and were all ‘yeah’ and they were like ‘okay well you have 30 more minutes’ and they came back and they had our ringtone on their phone and they were like ‘is this really you guys?’ and were like ‘yeah’ ‘oh that’s awesome’ and they let us swim for as long as we wanted and then they gave us free golf carts to go ride on the golf carts and were doing donuts and stuff it was great.
Hayley: It was so funny.
Sara: I’ve done donuts in a golf cart before. It’s a lot of funny.

Sara: When you guys started most of you were still in high school and that can be difficult how did that effect what you can do as a band?
Hayley: The cool part was we’ve been able to sorta grow up together and not only learn about music but life in general. It’s really cool to be able to have really close friends to be in a band with you. I guess school got in the way. Jeremy I think was just graduating he might have graduated I can’t remember.
Zac: We went to this graduation!
Hayley: Oh yeah! We went to your graduation party. So we were starting we went to Jeremy’s graduation and he sorta got school out of the way. Then Zac, Josh, and I still had a while to go, I mean it definitely got in the way but Josh and I finally graduated and Zac is still going through the motions. So hopefully, he’ll graduate soon.

Sara: Do you have any good jokes you’d like to share?
Hayley: [Laughs] I don’t have any, I’m a terrible joke teller.
Jeremy: I have one. Why are most black people tall?
Sara: Why?
Jeremy: Cause their Negros. [silence] Their Knee-grows
Sara: OH! I get it.
Jeremy: I love it.
Zac: I have one. What did Pink Floyd and Dale Earnhardt have in common? Both their greatest hits was hit “The Wall”
[Everyone laughs]
Hayley: That is so mean! My dad would cry!

Sara: Do you have any closing statements?
Jeremy: Thanks for buying our record and coming out and seeing us and make sure you come check us out on Warped Tour when we come through your city.
Josh: Yeah thanks!