I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a lot of contemporary stuff.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against 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.

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.

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.

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.