I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day..

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit..

It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess..

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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 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….

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….

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 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….