I enjoy the collaboration. I always envied people in bands who got to have that interaction.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.