All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.