If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

I spent a fair amount of time editing the lyrics and allowing the song to kind of evolve. ... anytime there's anything worthwhile, it certainly 'feels' like it happened on the spur of the moment, but it's a composite of lots of spurs of the moment, hopefully. And over time, you catch up with those, and then you have a full set of lyrics you've thought of and you feel comfortable singing.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

I'm usually pretty happy. I don't ever really get disturbed in any way, or feel like I need to go back and change something.