I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, which is good for the songs. It's always a work in progress.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and it's really, really hard to write lyrics that actually obey the vowel sounds.