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Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

I am very scared of being outside my home for long periods of time.

With our first two records we backed ourselves into a hole musically.

We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring.

We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.

Though, since the first record, I've dramatically changed my expectations for our records.

I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

If negative meant positive we'd be heroes.

I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

I'll always remember 1995 as the year i found out Star Trek wasn't real

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

So I went and visited a doctor and he diagnosed me with reactive arthritis.

I'm lucky the arthritis happened at the time that it did because of the record.

There are no big groupie fans or anything.