Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

American society has gone completely into denial.

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.