Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it.

Maybe I don't have the patience to make a virtue of necessity - the patience to carry something all the way through, and to actually say something. Lately, the songs are more jagged and they don't really lend themselves to that. I just take it one bit at a time.

But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

That's why you go to a nice studio. You can get a magic take. You don't really have to do anything to it.