I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.

I have a method of working on music: I'll get up in the morning and throw down some drums on my drum machine, and then I'll come back later and try to pop off rhythms to it.

I pretty much started the lyrics and I hit a roadblock and I think Kerry finished them up. Then I came back and did the ending part. The whole 'Raining Blood.' That part. But it pretty much came together easy. It's a short song.

We've never been a political band.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

I write about living, not dying.