If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile..

If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile. When Tim Burton did Mars Attacks, he tried to m….

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're insp….

I always put a little bit of restrictions on myself, and I only do it for my creativity. And I do it sometimes because I want the music to stand out ….

I don't know if people come to the shows of the Raveonetteswith any certain expectations. I think that we have fans who know that we're not... hugely….

I wanted to do an album that was very simple and very minimal in the context of instrumentation and stuff. I wanted to use as few means as possible t….

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself..

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out re….

Once I have something that I think I can work with, then I'll go in and make it on the computer. I'll try to recapture the sound that I had in my hea….

I do question a band's longevity, because most of my favorite bands only made one or two good albums. After that, I didn't care about them anymore. S….

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies..

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at th….

The key moments in your life are when you realize how exciting music can be, like when you hear Nevermind for the first time. I grew up in the '70s a….

I don't really care about labels that much. I wouldn't really call our music retro. There are influences of things from the past, which there is in e….

All the songs are written from the perspective of a person, being me, who had trouble with some of the big questions in life, like, are we meant to b….

I'm just the kind of person who needs a change every once in a while. I'm not comfortable staying in the same spot for too long. Even 10 years, for m….

When you listen to the music, you see little movies in your head, and that's the beauty of it, I think. People can make up their own stories. They do….

We started out with a lot of bands in the same generation as ours, and there are very few left. Mainly, I think people get into it for the wrong reas….

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think..

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake..

I want the music to stand out a little bit more than many other bands do. I still have some stuff where I don't use the high hat, and I don't use any….