I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.

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.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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.

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.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.