You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

It doesn't necessarily matter if I'm onstage or not. I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music performance, achieves a kind of transcendence that I associate with spirituality. It's the closest thing to what I think people expect church to be like. Or maybe just what I've always thought church should be. You lose yourself, and at the same time come to the realization or understanding that you're part of something bigger than yourself.

I think the songs are more about relationships that are endless.

For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point.

I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.