We always did our own mixing.

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long 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.

There's probably a certain confidence in your voice, or something, that is validated. You know what I mean? I'm just imagining if people didn't already say that you were cool, that you'd [have] more doubt in what you're doing. That's not so conscious, but that's part of my cosmology now.

Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

I've been getting plenty off my chest. Sometimes I get too much off my chest and I regret it.