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

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.

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

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.

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.

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

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out of that and read an average Jeanette Winterson book or something.