In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more the psychedelic warriors. We sat around watching horror films.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

I definitely don't want to play by myself. I don't relate to playing music that way. I like interacting with people.

Things have changed. The suburbs are developed, but other parts, like where we recorded Spirit and Danse Manatee are still woodland and farmland.