Jason: Not too bad how about yourself
Christopher: Pretty good.

Jason: How’s the studio treating you?
Christopher: The studio is treating us fabulous..I love it over there...It is awesome.

Jason: Do you notice much difference doing this whole big-time recording thing. The big label deal versus the independent recording you have done prior.
Christopher: (laughing) Totally. Right from when we stepped into the studio we were like, “Alright like this is so cool.” It was just so awesome because we’ve never been in a studio like that before. We’ve always been in like...we recorded in this one place and it was like someone’s backyard...like their back little building and what not...with writing all over the walls and everything. And then we go to this major studio and there’s like leather couches everywhere and big screen TVs. It was so amazing. I felt that it was so good for me even though I was a singer and stuff like that just to see our drummer had like eight different snares to choose from and our guitar players had like twelve different guitars to choose from. It was so cool how much we had available to us.

Jason: Like a kid in a candy store?
Christopher: (laughing)...Exactly..

Jason: Because you have all that access have you still been able to keep focused on what you thought this record would be going into it?
Christopher: Oh yeah, for sure. When we came into this record, we came into this thing like we want to keep this as raw as possible, hardly any effects on my vocals if none at all. We just want the basic guitars, bass, drums and then vocals and stuff like that just to keep it really raw and stuff and it was so cool because Howard Benson was really able to work this like that... and it was so cool.

Jason: Coming from Orange County, California, there obviously a billion bands from there, but it seems like a place where you can’t lock down like what kind of sound it is known for. Iit’s not like grunge that came out of Seattle.
Christopher: Yeah, for sure.

Jason: Orange county. How do you see April Sixth fitting in?
Christopher: I don’t know. You know, in our music I think we have like everything. If you want hard core, there’s like some hard core screams in there for you. If you want a soft little ballad, there’s beautiful guitar work and singing in there for you. I just think like there’s such a compilation of everything that comes out of Orange county in our music. I think it represents Orange County pretty well.

Jason: It’s gotta be a really cool feeling to be that age playing in front of that age and then really being able to reach out and have that special contact and relationship. You know a lot of bands can’t just because they’re not that age.
Christopher: Oh yeah. For sure. For sure.

Jason: Is it weird being in front of a bunch of kids your age playing music or is that just something that comes natural with no feeling of dread.
Christopher: Well, first I have to admit that we were horrible. Like at first as a band, I just thought...well, I didn’t think that we were horrible but looking back on it and watching video tapes...it’s like oh man. I feel sorry for all those people that had to listen to that stuff. But as time went on and we progressed as a band and we started connecting with our fans, everything just started to develop so beautifully with the fans and with us and everything. It all connected at once.

Jason: How shocked are you still that your in the studio recording a debut album...
Christopher: Everyday...and sometimes you just forget about it and then all of a sudden you’re just talking and it hits you. Me and Robert and the guys, we always talk to each other about this kind of stuff. We’ll just start laughing like little school girls. It’s like every time we start thinking about it, I just can’t believe this is happening. It’s like a shock. It’s crazy.

Jason: Do you ever think you’ll get over that?
Christopher:.I don’t know. I think for me personally, it’s always going to be, “I can’t believe this is happening.” Because my whole life now I’ve been performing in front of people and almost every time I have those little jitters. Where you’re nervous but you’re so excited to be there. It’s just that feeling never goes away from me, so yeah, it’s always going to be like something amazing for me.

Jason: It’s pretty obvious that your lyrics are very relatable to the kids and...how much of that is really drawn from personal experiences, how much is drawn from what you see going on around you?
Christopher: I see what you’re saying. Like everything that I write is something that I really, really feel like strongly about. Whether it would be about a break up with a girl or a loss of a friend or like me wanting someone to go to heaven really bad. For me, to preach them the word of God.. N that I write about it is something that I don’t feel really, really passionate about. Everything that I write about comes from some point in my life.

Jason: Have you ever had the experience that someone comes up to you and tells a story of how your lyrics meant to them and if it has happened how did you react to that? If it hasn’t then it’s obviously going to happen and how do you feel about someone really taking something you wrote that deep and personal and taking it to heart?
Christopher: The first time I got a letter I was just like ... it just made me feel so happy. Because music to me is just a way for me to express to whoever I’m talking to in that song and for other people to be able to take that and feel like they can express it through my music is incredible. I just think it’s so beautiful that someone feels the same way as I do and they feel as passionately about that song as I do. It makes me feel so wonderful about everything that we’re doing.