A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

If I weren't making music, I'd be the kid who writes into the magazines and says, "why don't you guys ever cover anything that's different? Hip hop is so much of the same thing over and over again." I love hip hop, so I wanted to make an album from that standpoint, 'cause that's who I am.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves.

I feel really lucky to be in a band where the guys, for all the opportunities to do things that potentially would be good for them but detrimental to the group, that everybody stayed loyal to the whole.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.