Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.

I think the majority of the people in the band still play in other bands, because we're not that active. But for me, it's the only thing I want to do and it's the only thing I'm focused on. I've always played in a couple of different bands at once, but now I'm only interested in the Dead Child stuff.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.