We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that.

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

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

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.

I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.

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.