It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.