I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

We try to make the sound hold as much relevance as it does on the record you know, we don't try and interpret it in a different way.

I'm writing songs that connect to millions of people. And that happens for a reason. I don't really worry too much about people who aren't into it because that's the beauty of music. It's subjective. If every single person in the world loved our music, then that'd be weird.

Along with John Hughes, he's probably the biggest influence. Would be awesome not only to meet him; he's one person I'd also definitely like to work with.

What works for eating and swimming might work for reading and writing.

I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.