Do you ever see a future collaborative t-shirt or merch with Papa Roach & Lovers Are Lunatics?
You know I was actually talking with my guitar player Jerry Horton earlier about this. Which brought us to a larger idea, which it would be cool to do collaborations with different artists, not just Papa Roach but a bunch of different artists. It would be rad to do something with a guy like Yelawolf or Machine Gun Kelly or something with Matty Mullins from Memphis May Fire, It would be cool to do something like that. The idea is to not really have limitations to what we can do with this line. Its not like “oh cool lets do a t-shirt” then like oh cool thats it. That’s the thing about Papa Roach in my career with this band and that goes in line with Lovers Are Lunatics is that we want to start from the ground up, straight DIY (Do It Yourself) and see how it grows. I’ve seen that in my career with Papa Roach, started it ourselves with no backing except our passion. That’s the same thing right now with Lovers Are Lunatics. I didn't want to go license it to a big company right off the bat because I feel that if we could survive the infancy of the brand and build it together independently, If we can make it through that as business partners we can do this for real. Then we’ll be the company that won’t need someone behind us & I’m very excited about it.
So we already just chatted about the inspiration of the style of the clothing, but how did the idea generally come to you. What made you decide I need to make a clothing line?
Well you know I just saw some of the clothing lines out there that are cool but it’s not what I want to see. I think that instead of just sitting there complaining about somebody else's art that I’m not impressed with. Then fucking let me go do something myself and see what we can come together with and see what inspires us. It’s definitely hitting right in line with who we are. We’re dreamers, we dream of having a clothing company that people are passionate about, so we made a t-shirt called dreamer. It’s a reflection of who we are as people and our motivation towards art.