To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

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

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.

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.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

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.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

How would you document the history of today?

I would remember this as one of those moments in life that I can hold onto and smile about, forever.

When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both.

I saw my enemies in Munich, and they are worms.

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

Go away... I'm alright.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me