There's a little less pressure in doing a solo tour, in some ways a simpler setup. A little bit more relaxed. But then also there's also - doing the big tours is exciting, because you get to put on the big show and everything. But I don't know if I would prefer one over the other. I guess it's no secret that I just don't like touring in general, but it's sort of the reality of the business these days.

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.

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it.

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

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

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.

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.