When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

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.