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.

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

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.

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.

I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

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.