Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

It was a nice relief to be able to work on individual songs.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.