I played violin from when I was about eight to thirteen, so I could read a little bit, but if you put a piece of music in front of me now, I would probably know the notes, but not the timing, how they're supposed to be played, and I just don't know how to read chords. If I'd stuck with it, I'd probably have more jobs.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

Our dad played us a lot of old country songs by The Carter Family and he would sing along to it. I loved listening to him sing.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.