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.

I stayed a kid for a pretty long time, and the logistics of being in a band, I did not take seriously at all.

Personally, I love the cookie monster grunts. I like how they alienate listeners. We sound the way we sound. We're individuals. We don't all like the same music. Everybody contributes their own influences, style, and history.

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 was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.