Scooter: Traffic was a muthefucker…
VOX: It was hailing…
Scooter: Really?
VOX: I shit you not. Sun shining on one end, hailing on the other...
Scooter: It was like a fucking hour to get on La Brea the other day, I was like ‘You've got to be fucking kidding me."
VOX: All you guys have tats?
Scooter: Yeah, pretty much. We did Tattoo Magazine yesterday. The guy was just taking pictures of tattoos, right, I mean how long can that fucking take? It took two hours! I was like dude, this was like a real photo shoot. Fuck, it’s just pictures of tattoos! I’ve seen Tattoo Magazine, I know what’s going to show up, this and this. [Scooter shows us the tattoos on his arms.] You guys ready?
VOX: Yeah.  How did you get together?
Scooter: Me and Sam [Cold's drummer] used to live near each other, we started back in high school.
VOX: In Florida…
Scooter: Yeah, Jacksonville, and then Jeremy joined and we’ve been playing ever since, 15 years now.
VOX: That's a long time..
Scooter: Yeah.
VOX: So, you guys must get along really well?
Kelley: Hell no!
Scooter: Everybody else except for us and Kelly. [Laughing]
Kelley: We’re just like brothers.
Scooter: He’s abused.
Sam: He’s not from Jacksonville.
Scooter: That’s right! You’re not from Jacksonville!
Kelley: I’m glaaaaad I’m not from Jacksonville.

VOX: So, what was the music scene like there?
Scooter: It was really stale kinda, there was metal bands and not a lot of places to play. So we moved to Atlanta, to the 'bigger city' or whatever. They had some kind of thing going on cause of, uh, you know REM and all those bands came from there. And we stayed for three years. At that time it was kinda of a college band, pop kinda thing going on [in Atlanta]. And it just wasn’t Cold's time. We didn’t go over too well in Atlanta. But now it’s ok.
VOX: Now there are a lot of heavy bands coming out of there.
Scooter: Yeah.
Terry: Actually, all the bands in Atlanta that are heavy used to practice in the same place we did.
VOX: Which bands?
Terry: Sevendust, for one. We used to do gigs with Sevendust

VOX: How did you get a nickname like 'Scooter'?
Scooter: I don’t know… parents. My dad.
Jeremy: It’s a redneck thing.
Scooter: Yeah, I guess my dad, oh I don’t know, wanted to call me Scooter.

VOX: How did you guys pick the name of the band?
Scooter: Cold just describes the music and the emotion of our band. It just fit good. When I was in New York mastering [the CD] our tour manager Colin West was there and he said Cold, man, that’s a perfect name.

VOX: How would you describe the style of music you play?
Scooter: We’ve always played the same style of music. It has always been dark and kind of heavy…and slower.
VOX: I’ve heard that you’re into Depeche Mode.
Scooter: Yeah, we listen to…
Kelley: The Smiths.
Scooter: Not The Smiths, I don’t think any band…
Terry: The Cure.
Scooter: We listened to Rush when we were young and lot of bands like that. When you're making a record, whatever you’re listening to at that time is influencing you.

VOX: What’s the songwriting process like for you guys?
Scooter: It depends. Someone has a riff and they come in and play it. Everyone feeds off of that. We kinda know what the person is going to do because we’ve been together so long. It’s really simple. If it doesn’t flow right, or I can’t come up with the lyrics or something like that…I mean normally with the rhythm of the song I can come up with the melody right then. If we don’t then we drop it cause then it’s not a Cold song.

VOX: Do you see you lyrics as negative or just realistic?
Scooter: Realistic. More like stories instead of…definitely stuff that has affected the band. It’s not all totally personal. It’s personal in a way that it’s around me but not me. Some songs are real personal, some are about friends. And you can come up with whatever you want out of the lyrics…kinda of vague when I write…there could be 20 different stories to the one I’m trying to tell. I have kids coming up to me all the time coming up with their own thing. That’s cool.

VOX: Are you still a Depeche Mode fan?
Scooter: Yeah, we get drunk and listen to them at 2 in the morning.

VOX: What’s your relationship with Fred Durst now?
Scooter: The same - just friends. He’s working on a new video [for Cold] now. We’re going to do that in a couple of weeks. He’s real busy. We’re busy. So we really don’t hang out or anything like that. When it comes to something with Cold he wants to help out. We take his help. If it wasn’t for Fred and Jordan, we wouldn’t have survived the A&M merger, with A&M defunct. So we had to go to Interscope/Geffen. If it wasn’t for them probably wouldn’t have done that.
VOX: You guys don’t have the same sound as Limp.
Scooter: I think a lot of the bands from Jacksonville and Florida, there’s a wide variety of music coming out of there, you have Marilyn Manson, us, Limp Bizkit, three totally different kinds of things. I don’t think we ever try to write other kinds of music, just stick to what’s happening. Just to be that kinda band. Because that leaves you open to die quick. As soon as that fad is gone, there goes your career. So we keep writing what we write.

VOX: With 13 Ways, was there an element you were trying to get across?
Scooter: No, I don’t think so. We just wrote a record and it just came out like that. There’s no special point to any of the songs or the title or anything. The title, 13 Ways To Bleed On Stage just came to me one day. It’s just the emotion we put out on stage. It just describes us.

VOX: The song "Just Got Wicked" is a powerful song - tell me about it.
Scooter: "Just Got Wicked" is about knowing your faults and letting your demons take over but you don’t do anything about it. So, it’s about addiction kinda.
VOX: What’s the influence? Was it personal?
Scooter: It’s kinda me, I don’t want to get into that.

VOX: My favorite song is "No One" - what's that one about?
Scooter: That song is about my mom. I wrote it about her, cause when she was young she had some bad things happen to her. Throughout her life it seems like all her friends had either died or had to leave her. It’s just personal and about her. It’s cool it came out like that cause she knows the song’s about her. With the new single coming out she’s pretty happy about it. It’s cool.
VOX: What is the video like?
Scooter: It’s like the story; you start off with a little girl, and the bad things just come…

VOX: Are you guys in to the Internet? Do you see it as important to the band?
Scooter: Yeah, we have about 15 web sites [dedicated to the band].  All the kids get together and talk about stuff. Plus it gives us the chance to read about what they’re talking about.

VOX [Noticing the Marilyn Manson autobiography on a nightstand]: Who’s reading the Manson book?
Scooter: Actually, I haven’t read it yet. Sam read it the other day…
VOX: Like, in a day?
Scooter: He kinda did!
VOX: Give us your summary.
Sam: He’s pretty normal. [Everyone laughs] It’s kinda how we grew up.
VOX: So you can relate?
Sam: Totally