The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something.

I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.