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

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

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

When we were on breaks from recording and touring, I was kind of moping around, like not knowing what to do. It was hard to adjust back to normal life after being so busy.

Eventually I had so many little melodies and ideas that, you know, that they were all songs to me and I threw in a few cover songs like Enya's "Watermark," Bach, and my dad's song, "Song for the Whales."

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.