In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style, but the core elements of what you do are just part of who you are.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

When I say I had a cosmic confidence that we were capable of writing good music, I'm speaking about that time when we met Sam [Fogarino]. Greg [ex-drummer] is actually a really great drummer and a great guy. I never want to sound like I am belittling his contributions in the early days, but when Sam joined, there was an immediacy of, like, "Here we go."