One thing I've always been proud of is that vicious dichotomy between the pretty controlled, angular playing of the band, and my - I don't want to ta….

People are intended to resist symbolic interpretation, as well. At times, they break through - there are little hints of 'this song is about this,' b….

We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days befor….

I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional respon….

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions..

These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these ….

It's pretty awesome to be in a band with your wife! The tour, it beats you down, and we can just share that, and sometimes revel in the experience. I….

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music..

Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it di….

I find listening to music in terms of influences, and trying to keep up with what's going on, is sickening! I mean, I'm not deliberately musically il….

You don't expect people to go, "music has just been reinvented!" But the hope is that people won't say, "this is the most boring cliché." I mean, tha….

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there..

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art..

We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, ….

It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh ….

It's like, symbolic language, the way that people approach dense poetry... it always bugs me, because that approach suggests that it's like a mystery….

Bruegel has these paintings of people just... interacting with each other. And there's this special wink - it's not a celebration of nature, it's peo….