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

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

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 don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.