What would you say is your favorite song from 'Anarchy, My Dear' and what does it mean to you? I would say 'Burn A Miracle' is my favourite song actually. It makes me feel like my values and the things I've been shaping in the last few years of my life are valid. By writing a song that really cuts to the point and the truth, it really makes you examine whether it's real or not and it makes you question yourself - when I sing a song, or when I think about it, it strikes me as being very true. So in that regard it's a really positive thing for me to have a song like that. When you feel a radical thought about society or the world, and think wow, I'm not that far off, it actually stems from something real.
Can you tell us about how Two Tongues came together? Me and Chris became friends because basically Saves the Day has been my favourite band since I was fourteen or fifteen years old. We met while playing a show together and it turned out Say Anything was kind of his favourite new band and so we had this mutual admiration for each other and that turned into a close friendship. It seemed like the obvious choice to eventually play music together. It was sort of like a fantasy for me and then for Chris it was a great thing too. We wrote a record together about the relationship between someone who's inspired and someone who's inspiring, and how it's a give and take. It's awesome cos' it's still something we do and it's still part of our lives and we want to make another record at some point in the next few years.
So have you got any new material as of yet? Not yet; a lot of Two Tongues is very conceptual, so I think it's not like a normal band where you write a song here and there and eventually it comes together and becomes a record. I think we like doing concept records, so I think we'll have to find the right time to play and really get into it.
What do you want 2012 to do for Say Anything? We've unfortunately had to spend the last couple of years getting things back together, in terms of finding a label and recording the record, we've had to be off the road for a while, so for the people that love us and the people that will love us, we really just wanna' be out there and present in culture. Interview by Ramsey Marwan