The band had this to say: "We apologize to our fans who may have been misled by these purported rumors. We are not planning on working with music producer Quincy Jones on our upcoming record.

"We feel that this incident has distracted from the momentum we have been trying to build and we'd like put this behind us. We respectfully apologize to Mr. Jones and his management for any bad feeling this may have resulted in. However, we are open to working with Mr. Jones in the future."