Music in general is looking for something new overall.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

I'll run against the grain till the day I drop?

You can't watch 'Dr. Strangelove' with commercials. That would be sacrilegious.