No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

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

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.

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

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.