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Sony Entertainment Network: From SEN follower @Hybridstaind on Twitter: How would you describe the energy from one of your Country shows compared to a Rock show?
Aaron Lewis: Well, just by nature, there’s a lot more energy to a rock show. But, the country shows are great, too, for different reasons. I tend to express myself a lot differently in the rock shows, lyrically. But I’d have to say that there’s probably more evoked at a STAIND show. I have to.

SEN: From SEN fan Damien Dewolfe on Facebook: What is your favorite song to perform?
AL: Doing what I do, you really can’t pick favorites. At the risk of sounding cliché, because I write all the songs, they’re all a piece of me, so I can’t really pick a favorite piece.

SEN: What kind of crazy [or] ridiculous stuff would you like to have on stage if you could? Like flames or riding in on a horse, or . . .?
AL: [laughs] I’ve actually never really been that artist. I would prefer to just walk out on stage with my guitar.

SEN: You mention that your roots are in country and that’s where you come from, but if you could have roots in any other genre, what would it be?
AL: I’m pretty content with my roots.

SEN: You’re a story teller. You said that all the songs are a little piece of you and that’s a big part of country music. Now, are all of these your stories? Are they sometimes fictional? Where do you draw from?
AL: I always draw from life. I have a hard time writing stories that aren’t real. How are you supposed to re-deliver that, you know? So, [they’re] all true.

SEN: You co-produced, “Country Boy.” Did you do production for STAIND as well?
AL: Without it being called that. Me and Mike [Mushok] will sit down and we work the stuff out so it works and so that I can sing over it. I tend do a lot of arranging for the band, but never called it co-producing before. James Stroud, who I worked with on the country stuff, insisted that I be put on there as a producers as well because he recognized how much producing I was doing.

SEN: Are there practices that you take into play for writing a country song vs. a rock song? Are there things that go between both of them?
AL: A good story, you know, they’re just different stories. I can call on different memories. STAIND was always a place for me to get the negative stuff that sticks with you off my chest and off my shoulders. The country thing is a much broader spectrum of storytelling. I can write a happy song with the country thing, I can’t really do that with Staind.

SEN: Your latest song is called, “Endless Summer,” and you just premiered the video on CMT. What is your ultimate Summer song?
AL: I don’t really have winter songs and summer songs and spring songs. A good song is a good song.

SEN: You collaborated for the first time on, “Grandaddy’s Gun.” What did you learn from collaborating with these people that you hadn’t [before] as far as the songwriting process?
AL: It really wasn’t like that. I’ve been pretty good friends with Rhett Akins for a few years now and I heard him play that song on an acoustic guitar, just him and the guitar, and instantaneously fell in love with the song because I might as well have written [it.] When the time came and we were recording the music, it was more a recognition of my respect and friendship for Rhett that I recorded his song than it was anything else. Like I said, when I first heard the song, I might as well have written it, I could tell the exact same story.

SEN: Has that happened to you with other songwriters coming to you in that way?
AL: I’ve never let any other songwriters approach me and this wasn’t that, either. It was a very natural thing to happen. I needed another song and I was like, “man, I think I want to record Rhett’s song, because he’s my friend.”

SEN: Your upcoming album is called, “The Road,” and you’re obviously on the road a lot. I think you can probably call a lot of different places home. What places do you consider home and what things do you take with you to remind you of home?
AL: It’s a horrible realization, but my home is that tour bus. I’m there more than I am at home with my family, but that connection to home is the most important thing to take with me.