We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.

Your parents were always trying to get you to be careful when you were a kid, and that's all pervasive in this society.

I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.

Slowly you become your own man.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

The stockbrokers, their hair isn't long and full of leaves and stuff like that, so they don't catch your eye. They're wearing the tie-dye, so they don't stick out, but you don't see them. The ones you see are the ones with the leaves in their hair, the matted hair and all that kind of stuff.