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

One of the coolest things to me about going to a show is you look over, and the guy next to you is sitting there drinking a beer and he's wearing a Donkeys t-shirt. And you're like, "Dude, I love The Donkeys."

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

If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

There's a lot of ways to be honest that don't necessarily involve absolute facts being true. I think that's something I absolutely try to do.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

I graduated high school in 1989, and there was no alternative rock radio, and there wasn't really good college radio you could get on a car stereo. Once you get a car at that age, you're spending all the time you can away from home, sometimes just driving around aimlessly. Listening, or not even listening, but subconsciously soaking up this classic rock barrage.