I like the idea of a record being more than one thing emotionally - human beings go through so many emotions in one day, and I like those things sitting next to each other.

I think a lot of things that people think are complimentary are a little bit condescending, but then we just have to keep doing what we're doing, and being in the band is the important bit.

Writing with other people is the only way I ever really work. In some ways it's great because it's helpful to someone pull you out of the loop.

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

I think in reading a few sentences of text you can just tell the tone, and that's something I love in prose writers.

I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.

It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it's a three-part writing process and it's a three-part decision making process, it's not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs. It's startling how many people make that assumption.