In 2008 it's easy to get huge before you have an album out with the Internet. I think that's great and you see a lot of artists like that. It seems like it's becoming rarer to find a band that has been touring for six years, doing small shows and then breaking out.

The primary goal isn't a financial gain; it's to put out interesting music.

It's rare when I feel like I can extract a lyrical message out of combining two things together.

I didn't change much in terms of my setup or how I was making my music. It's evolved to this point where I think people look at it as one big traveling party.

It's easy to hate on things that are close to your world that aren't exactly what you're doing.

The point has always been to make music, it's not like I've always been running a giant money making scheme.

To get 300 songs to fit together on an album, it's not like I choose 300 songs and say these are the ones I wanted to pick. To get those 300 songs I sampled 1000's of songs and narrowed down the ones I felt worked the best musically.