I don't think the emotional quality is the defining quality of the music but it's definitely something that people have picked up on a lot

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge.

I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.