Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

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.

It's hard for us to talk about how we disdain file-sharing when in fact it probably has been a great resource for us.

Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.

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.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. It has just as much power in creating a kind of perpendicular sentiment in the music, creating a nice friction that also plays up some of the tension in the song.