I have the same birthday as George Washington. No I don't. I don't even know who George Washington is.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

Live we're a lot louder and noisier on the album. I think for the album we took a lot of time for the songwriting and we wanted to make good pop music, and I think there's plus and minuses to doing pop music and noise.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

We were thinking about how other people deal with this career on every song. We got to meet people like Thom Yorke and hear him say how it's never normal when fans just come up to you. It's always a strange job. We don't want to come off like we're pitying ourselves for having this job because it's really amazing in a lot of ways. But there's a lot of stuff that comes with it that we're not really comfortable with.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.