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.

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

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.

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 just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

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

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.