The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

There's always something extremely personal in the songs, but I may change the point of view from what I actually experienced.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. CDs are usually an hour long because that's the amount a CD could hold - not because that's the optimal amount of time for any given musical expression. Side one and side two? That's a product of vinyl. But that's not necessarily dramatic form - you could argue that that was three acts.

Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I like to deal with my dark side in a creative way, and just sing about killing people instead of actually doing it.