Billy did a fairly revealing interview with the people over at the Rock N Roll Experience.

“So how come you chose to tour with Linkin Park this Summer as opposed to doing a headlining Ashes Divide tour?

We are starting off doing some radio shows which I’ve never done..with A Perfect Circle, I don’t know that we ever really did a radio show before where you are kinda put on..I guess they are the same thing as going on a festival of sorts, but then we are doing our own club headlining stuff intermingled with that with some radio shows & then onto the Linkin Park thing…it just, you know, the opportunity got presented to us & I thought it was a great opportunity, I mean, I don’t know a ton about Linkin Park, I’ve heard they are really cool guys, but I thought it was very cool of them to take the band out & put us on the main stage without..they got an advance copy of the record & that’s it, they’d never seen how things come together live, nor has anyone, so I thought it spoke alot for their trust & I appreciate it..those guys believed in us enough to do that..I think it’ll be a fun Summer thing to be involved in.”

A Danny Lohner Remixed version of Keep Telling Myself It’s Alright was also briefly mentioned as being tentatively in the works.

Read the full interview in it’s entirety here