The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

Before I had a driver's license, and I lived in the suburbs of Minneapolis and went to high school and came home - I could ride my bike around or get a ride from my parents, but my world was pretty small, limited. Like anyone at that age, I only knew things I could get to.

I think when you are doing a song you're trying to give people enough details that they connect.

The critics and hardcore music fans, those are the people you have to get to first, so we're really happy about it.

Some people I've talked to have had really an interpretation of this record as being nostalgic. But in some ways, when we were writing Stay Positive, I was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. This record, I think actually was us aging gracefully.

I'm able to draw outside my own personal experiences. No one wants to hear the song about what I really did today, which is go get coffee and clean my apartment.

Just looking into something kind of analytically can give a lot of ideas.