The kids watch TV and get this sense about how it's glamorous, or when you get shot, you're dead.

I just trust my ears.

Not an arrangement.

But the chord changes are haunting, and there are moments that draw you right in, in the most intimate way. We'll record it when we've performed it a few times. A piece like that needs to be out in the sunlight for a while.

In a blink of an eye, that bullet ripped across his spinal cord and changed this kid's life.

It's amazing how ignorant a person can be, but there's something about our ears that ends up telling us some truths.

The kids that are out there doing this stuff to each other -- it's an awful waste of life and potential. It's terrible.

We wanted to go from the most intimate sound to the largest, in the space of a heartbeat.