I did some writing. I was just taking the kids to school. I did a couple things and we did some tours. It was a lot of downtime.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

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.

I really do think everybody can sing.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

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.

In the early '90s, it felt like there was space - there was like an empty feel. There was nobody really doing this. Maybe the Pixies were, a little bit. Their lyrics were also disjointed, more psychosexual or something. That's part of youth, too, maybe, that you just feel like you're doing something different.