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.

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.

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

As I got older, it turned into hardcore punk. I started getting into more aggressive music.

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.

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.

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.