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Well, we grew up in New Hampshire. And, being as we're brothers, we tend... you know, there were a lot of times that, you know, we were quite apart from one another. 'Cuz I've always been the type of individual who never really liked to be around people anyway. Like, you know, family or anything. I'm always been a loner. I've always been that sort of onе-man army. You know, really hated peoplе a lot. So... but we... you know, we....

Hung out a lot with each other because we really didn't have that many friends, and nobody else really understood what we wanted to do.

So, you know, basically we never wanted to work, and music was like our revenge. And so what we would do is we would just steal or break into houses or sell drugs, or whatever we could do to make any kind of money at all. It was easy. We never got... well, we almost got caught a few times.

Caught a few times, but...

But, I mean, it didn't matter, because... I mean, it's just pretty much the way I feel now. I think violence is a very important thing. And I think, if you want something, that you've just got to take it. You know, I don't have time to waste on, you know, submitting a piece of paper or going to a protest rally. If I want something, I can just fuckin' take it. Or I can, you know, hold you up or stick a gun in your face, or whatever I've got to do.

And that's pretty much what we do onstage as well. I mean, I've had people onstage... I've held hostages onstage. I had a girl one time at knifepoint. Had a knife to her throat. And then I... one time I think in Connecticut, there was like a whole lot of these people that didn't want to pay to get in. It was this real preppy type of college; it really sucked. And so we let 'em all in, and they thought "wow, well, we're getting into the show for free". And then I went out and beat the shit out of 'em. Stole their money anyway.