We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

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.

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.

I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.

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.

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.