I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

He also contributed vocals to the 2009 Fucked Up cover of "Do They Know It's Christmas?"


Personal life
Though Mould's sexual orientation had previously been something of an open secret he was outed in the early 1990s in an interview in the music magazine Spin; he came to terms with being openly gay even appearing in the movie Bear Nation self-identifying as a bear. Paul area where he then attended Macalester College. 1990's Black Sheets of Rain had a much heavier guitar sound recalling Hüsker Dü's louder angrier moments.