Of course you want to keep making good records, but I think there were certain aspects to the indie rock situation at that point where we were pushin…

- Lee Ranaldo

This was early '90s and in New York hip-hop was coming on really strong; that was the sort of urban folk music that was almost threatening to eclipse…

- Lee Ranaldo

And for me, I think of the group as one in which there's always this pendulum swinging back and forth between writing shorter, more concise pieces un…

- Lee Ranaldo

In a certain way, we felt almost like spies in the major label world. We were coming from some other world, and we somehow got our foot in the door a…

- Lee Ranaldo

We're obviously not a platinum-selling band, and yet we've managed to maintain a career on a major label through all this time, and I think we always…

- Lee Ranaldo

We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record being influen…

- Lee Ranaldo

Certainly our records could be found in most of the mom and pop indie stores, but we still found there were a lot of major stores that weren't on the…

- Lee Ranaldo