The cynicism doesn't come across in the final; it can be taken as a very sincere plea for someone to not go away.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

I was living in a loft with Dave Sitek - this loft full of people just working on their stuff. Some were painting, some were writing. Any plans you had were kind of like a plan for the next two months.

There are people who kind of let you know that you can silence the room.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

You can physically move yourself around but there's that great line that Adam wrote: "Does it define for life, like print of thumb?" I think it does.