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.

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

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 everybody is playing at the same level, there's so much more noise. And there's less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they're doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.

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.

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

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.