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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think the music should definitely underscore the sentiment of the song, and it can work for or against it. It has just as much power in creating a kind of perpendicular sentiment in the music, creating a nice friction that also plays up some of the tension in the song.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.