You can go back years and place blame, but the bottom line is that we have a budget before us, and we need to be responsible to the taxpayers.

Let's put it to bid with these restrictions and [contractors] could build it for less.

I'm not questioning the viability of the project ... we should be designing and building for the grant money we received ... and work hard to stay within those budgets.

What's increasing taxes is expenditures. We provide a lot of services. We spend a lot of money. There are two options - raise taxes or reduce services.

You won't have to pay property taxes on your car, which is a regressive tax. Let's work on reforming property tax ... [and] wait and see [what happens]...we'd all shift our opinions if we received more money from the state [than expected].

Years ago, John's dad was yelling and screaming at us; he was like, 'Goddamit, I can't understand a fuckin' word you're saying,' ... And John was like, 'You know what? That's how I should sing. I should just take it to the next level and make it so freakin' brutal that you can't even understand it.' And when he did that, it just jelled with the music that we were playing. The more we tried to make it heavier, the better the songs came out.