When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.

My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.