I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.

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

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

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.