You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

I'm an experimental artist in a field that doesn't celebrate experimentation. It celebrates self-destruction, which I guess you could say is a creative endeavor.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.

We have a problem with any labels that people try to hang on us, because all it does is drag you down.

Gish was the best representation of where we were at the time.

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.