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.

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

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 have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

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

No-one wants to hear anything spoken in earnest anymore, unless it happens to involve unrequited, teenage love.

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.