We Die Young is about gang violence. That was something that was happening in Seattle, something that kinda opened our eyes. It just seemed like things were getting out of hand. Incidents where kids were getting shot, and getting their tennis shoes ripped off their dead bodies. It just seems like these kids are dying at younger and younger ages and getting involved in gang activity.

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

A lot of power-pop comes out of LA, a lot of speed metal comes out of New York.

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

There's no huge, deep message in any of the songs. We recorded a few months of being human.