Razorcake: Interview with Two Cow Garage (2011)

Back in 2011 the members of Two Cow Garage gave an in-depth interview to Razorcake, here's some of that to check out:

Ian: How difficult are the times in between records and touring? When III came out, a recurring theme was, “How long is it okay to struggle for this thing you love. How long is it okay to live like this?”
Shane: Look, Van Gogh never sold a painting.
Ian: But with the band’s growing success, is that question getting harder to answer?
Micah: No, it just evolves.
Shane: It’s not like any of us sit around and go, “Look at all the things I’ve accomplished.” We’re just driven people trying to accomplish new things.
Cody: There’s no goal, per se. We’re just trying to keep progressing.
Shane: We’ll always have something to say.
Cody: That’s what drives our songs. If we lose that and the fire’s gone, then there is no band.
Shane: We don’t want to be Brett Michaels on a reality show looking for an excuse to keep wearing bandanas and eyeliner.
Ian: Shane, how does having a kid affect the answer to that question?
Shane: It just reinforces it, honestly. What kind of person am I if I don’t hold on to the key things that I’ve always believed in? What kind of role model am I to my son?
Andy: When Jack (Jackson, Shane’s son) gets older he’s going to be, like, “Holy shit, my dad does exactly what the fuck he wants to do.”
Ian: You’re all from small towns here in Ohio. How does that shape who you are as a band and as an individual?
Micah: Most of what we have been talking about just about sums it up for us. We’re all small town kids trying to do what we love for a living.
Ian: How does that impact going around the United States from town to town?
Shane: I’ll tell you exactly how. Because we work three times as hard as any other band day in and day out. There might be better bands than us, and I don’t care about that. I only care about what we can control and do as a band.
Micah:We don’t deserve anything. We work for everything we get and that’s Ohio to the core.