Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.

Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.