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

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.

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.

I never punched in anything when I recorded Imaginaryland. Where the title came from is a whole other story.

People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.

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."

I always related my favorite music to the movies.