3 Doors Down

The band is from Mississippi. They enjoy the outdoors, with Brad Arnold and Todd Harrell very much into deep-sea fishing. On the day Songfacts spoke with Brad Arnold, he and Harrell reeled in a 150-pound tuna.

Brad Arnold wrote many of the songs on the band's first album when he was still in high school. Their breakout hit was Kryptonite, which he wrote in math class.

Their songs are credited to the entire band, which keeps them insulated from disputes over writing credits. Arnold wrote most of the lyrics; he shared this with Songfacts regarding his writing: "The difference in a good song and a great song, to me, is the difference in a good book and a good movie. They're both telling you the same story. They both have the same outcome. But whereas the movie is telling you exactly what to see and be heard, the book lets you see whatever your mind comes up with."