We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.

I didn't really know why I wanted to go to college. I didn't really have a reason to go there other than the fact that everybody else was doing it.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

Around the time I dropped out of college, I decided to start taking what I liked about short stories and apply it to writing songs - to make these things that would change and keep going.

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.

We're all living in different states and we all have different systems within those states. Even on the most basic personal level, it affects me.