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.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

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

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.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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

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.