I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

I grew up with a rotary phone in my house and that seems a world away, but that's what I was used to as a kid. So now things seem complicated to me, but to kids born right now, they don't feel complicated.

What frustrated us about the song [Robots] was not that it existed - we owe a lot to that song and have had a ton of fun playing it. The problem was that it was a "given".It was like everyone was waiting for it to happen, and then it better be as crazy as the time they saw it before. Started to feel like dancing monkeys.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.