Always be skeptical about simplicity.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

We live in ugly times.

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

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.