The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

When we started, a lot of bands sounded really different from one another.

If I'm feeling that I have an angle or something to say or something where in a way I'm having a conversation with myself, that's immensely pleasurable.

Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found.

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.