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

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.

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.

I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.

Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.

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.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.