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 aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

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

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.

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.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

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.