And there might even be some people that will think that we broke up, and that this is a reunion tour -- and it's just not the truth.

Please let us make it very clear that this is not a “reunion” tour in any way shape or form.

I respect that he may have come in the hope to hear us play his favourite songs, and triumphantly be the band he wants us to be…but as I said the other night to the same audience in Detroit that this young man was in, 'this is not a reunion tour'…

It's really not a reunion, we've been together again for 8 years now, but the U.S. thinks the world revolves around us...so we supported that stupidity by saying "Since The Last Time" was our first record in 12 years.

This is not a reunion, this is a new band.

I wouldn’t call it a reunion. It’s a renewing and a rebirth. I missed my boys and wanted to create music with them again. We’re all thrilled to have a second chance to make a first impression.

It's not a reunion, because I will not be playing with any of the old lineup guys, except Tony Choy, of course so... I always stated there WILL NEVER BE a reunion, and there won't be, since I never look back at the past and I refuse now to play with people that are not on the same musical level as I am.

It wasn’t a break up, man…We were shoulder to shoulder for 14 years, man. And you know, you start getting a little tired of one another’s routines, lets just say. If somebody’s chewing his food too loudly, you hear that for 900 days over a few years and it starts getting to you. Its kind of funny. It sounds very trite. But it definitely wasn’t a breakup. It was a respite.

We never broke up, we went on strike until the manager left.