This time, we went up to Big Bear for 3-4 weeks and sequestered ourselves writing this album [ "The Black Crown"].

I think with a lot of producers, they think computers can create the best drum track, or guitar track and it comes off as too artificial.

I love everything about what we [Suicide Silence] do, and our life style. It's an insane way to live when you spend most of your time inside a plane, tour bus, or in a back stage. All over this massive place we call earth.

You only live once, life is really short.. don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.

Keep listening to music, it gets you through everything. I promise.

I think being a frontman is the greatest job and I get to do this every day.

I try to do things positive on my throat, but a couple things are negative like smoking and drinking heavily. I really don't know. There's no particular thing that I do that's beneficial - it just kinda works. I guess I'd say warming up every day before a performance is the biggest thing.