It's the most dangerous world for bands nowadays because everybody's branding and trying to steal your vibe as soon as you do anything that anyone cares about. It's very weird.

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

Music is about your feelings.

Artists have to survive.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.