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Ramos: I think for me, it was an attitude and maybe a confidence that we had. It was like a chip on our shoulder — that we could keep being creative. That was the thing that was important to us for some reason. “Is that OK? If we did that, then what’s next? If we already did that, then can we do something else that’s just as interesting, just as engaging?” Always trying to be creative is the attitude I think that I had. And I kind of feel like everyone was trying to do that same thing — do something new that we hadn’t done before. Why was that so important to us? I don’t know. ... Ernest, can you explain that? Why was it so important to us that we had to keep, in our minds, moving forward?

Salaz: I’ve been thinking about that a lot too, actually. We’ve been looking backwards, getting all this music ready to be remastered, and now we’re playing these shows. So, we’re just constantly looking back. And that could be healthy, and that could be really unhealthy, depending on how you’re feeling. But for me, I think about Glorium, we started almost like a garage band. We were a garage band. ... And we didn’t know what we were doing. And that’s been our mindset since day one — that we don’t necessarily know where we’re going. We just know we’ve got to keep going. And so, over the years, everyone kind of grows into the roles a little bit. And I have to say that I think Paul, and especially Linus (Lino Max), both of them really have such a unique take on the world. And they’re very inspiring. They’re very creative. And that was a counterpoint in a way to Juan, George and I, where we’re more musical and could do all these different songs, different covers. And they just had this viewpoint that informed our music a lot. And so, there was always a constant questioning, a constant searching, never feeling settled. It was just like every musical style that we went through was a journey. And I don’t think we really questioned it after a while. That was what we did since day one.

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