”When I was a kid I spent a lot of time wondering who was in the closet and who was under the bed, footsteps chasing me in the night, dreams that I had as kid and I realised a lot of what stops me from what I want to do is fear. I think that stops a lot of people doing what they want to do, or saying what they want to say. I think that's one of the hardest things in the world for people to admit to and you get kind of scared of yourself. Paper Monsters - that's what's always stopped me and these songs have come out of that. There were all these monsters growing inside of me and I had to let them out and then I realized that it was only this huge symbolic sheet of paper that was stopping me, but then I realized I could just rip it apart and rip through it and come out the other side, so that's where the title came from.”

                                                                  (from interview with Dave,2003)