Why Must a Building Burn

It’s about empathy, as a lot of our music is. One of our old merchandise sellers, Nick, was involved in the Bataclan tragedy and was killed. I saw his photograph on the news in our country, and I couldn’t quite believe what I was seeing. These are human people, they’re not just statistics and names and demographics; they’re people who meant something. It connected with the idea of what do I want to do with my life, and how do I want to remember people. It became a tribute to living life and commemorating somebody that you love.