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.

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

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

When we woke up every morning, one of our things was, "Let's go put a new sign in the back window of the van." Those are the different signs we had up in the back of our van, so that the people behind us could have something enjoyable to look at.