I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

I usually always think of characters and sometimes the characters are a little bit invented, so it's nice to give these invented, blurry, personas an actually name. It makes me get closer to them or something like that. But they're not all real, they're weird amalgamations of reality.

We were always in the shadows of the stuff that was getting more attention. So people learned to listen to us slowly over time. And, frankly, we learned how to listen to ourselves. It takes us a long time to write a song that we all really like, so it makes sense that it would take a while for the listener to get there, too.

The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.