You’ve spent a decent amount of time in America in six tours. How has your perception of America changed the longer you’ve spent time here? Is it different than what you expected before you came the first time?
Growing up in China you always hear bad talk about the American government, they are always fighting. They always bad talk each other. Over here they talk about the Chinese as terrorists while over there they say damn those capitalists. Every kid who grew up in China always dreamed to come to America to study or grab a better life than in China. Cause there’s like 15 billion people over there in China. It’s very tough to get your opportunity. Our education system is very different. When I was a little boy I had a hard time in school, actually everybody had a hard time in the school but it’s still different, different things. But every Chinese kid dreams about coming to America. That is also one reason that our album is called American Dreamer. There is a straight meaning that we come from China, we’re not American. And second, we produced this album with Ken Casey in the USA. I was so excited to come to America to do something. In China the rock n roll music is not organized like here. It’s a big scene. In China there is a huge audience but it’s not like America. So one day I spoke to my friend and said maybe I should play my music overseas. And he said if you want to play in America you have to sing in English. Everybody learned English since the middle school so I can use my English pretty well. So I just started, I just did it.


Does it bother you that to play in America you have to sing in English?
It doesn’t bother me at all. Actually tonight we played two Chinese songs too. For me, it's so much fun to tour in the USA. Not much different than when you tour in China. We just play music because one great rock show can change the world.

This is an except from the interview done in Seattle. Full text in the print issue.

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