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 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 listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

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

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.

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.

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