“I’m a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we’ve been in many bands.”

I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand.

I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I’m not a good guitar player.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

I don’t treat the band like I’m above them or that they’re a hired hand for me. We’ve never worked that way. So I’m a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.

I never studied anything, really. I didn’t study the drums. I joined bands and made all the mistakes onstage.

Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things

I couldn’t put my finger on one reason why we broke up. It was time, and we were spreading out. They were spreading out more than I was. I would’ve stayed with the band.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

Yes, but don’t forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

I think ultimately what you really want is a few people within any label that are into the band enough to really work on it every day for a long time and to actually try a little bit.

Whether you like another bands music or not you never know who is going to take you out on tour or who you are going to be friends with and that is just something that is important to us.