You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

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.

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.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

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.

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.