On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.

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

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

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.

We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.

We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.