We went from being thought of and talked about as "a band that plays a so-and-so style of music" (a grunge band, a stoner band, etc) to "a band that ….

I always have problems with seeing how our new stuff relates to our old stuff - I'm better at seeing long lines in other people's music than in my ow….

You find your preferred resolutions and harmonic intervals and what-have-yous, and then you either keep writing the same thing until everybody is as ….

It feels like we've grown enough as musicians over the last few years to go new places, and our conceptual and compositional abilities have developed….

Sadly, as a songwriter you sooner or later finish developing your musical understanding..

I really liked Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls and a couple of others, but with these kinds of movies the best part is the 'talking about it over a be….

A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained….

We've gotten better at shooting down routine material or stuff we feel like we've done better in the past. Getting different people in the band for p….

We sometimes feel like hamsters on a wheel, covering the same musical ground we did 20 or more years ago..

We've known each other [in Motorpsycho ] since 1985 or '86, are really different as personalities, and yet have actually never disagreed to any degre….

Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, ….

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project..

I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long..

When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how ….