I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

Right after I graduated, my girlfriend, who I had been going out with for five years, dumped me, and my grandmother died.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist.

Travelling to different countries is a goal. I wouldn't mind playing huge places if we got an opportunity to, but it's nice to play small places too. Fish was saying yesterday that he doesn't ever want to play stadiums, or maybe he would once, he said.

I built all the speaker cabinets myself.

A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.