"My sister committed suicide when I was 15 (she was 14)…I was never able to put that stuff anywhere. All that pain I was carrying inside. The pain of losing her had always been there. With Today Is The Day, there was a lot of anger involved. After that, I didn’t want to be angry. When I start playing in Mastodon and moved to Atlanta, there was a big personal healing. Mastodon had a lot to do with that. That’s one of the main reasons that the album is titled “Remission”. “Remission” means forgiveness and healing. Mastodon helped me do that: forgive a lot of things that happened in my life."