I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight-train energy of all these people at the same time playing.

It's amazing when you find a photo of your grandparents when they were young because it's black and white and the care that they put into their appearance back then was so grown up and specific to that era.

Probably, on some subconscious level, I was motivated by not wanting to spoon-feed any similar flavors.

All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

You just never set roots; you take pleasure in simple conversations, because you know you're not going to have much more than that. It's very isolating, and that can be a good thing.