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 didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

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

I love electronic music as much as I love something that sounds like 'Pullhair Rubeye,' or something a little bit more organic than that.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

I always thought it was important for my lyrics to come from a really honest place.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.