We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design.

There is a lot of use of ProTools in professional studios, but this is mostly for the special effects it allows, not for sound quality. These special effects soon fall out of fashion, and I don't think this trend will define studios permanently.

Me, I'm perfectly content to make music for its own sake and let audiences who are interested find out about it on their own.

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.

The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.

Staying aware of what you're doing and trying to make use of all its possibilities is more rewarding than grabbing sounds at random and incorporating them as an easy means of adding variety. That said, I don't think it is impossible for us to use other instruments - we simply haven't wanted to.

When I was 19, I worked as a T-shirt screen printer.

These letters never have any term of expiration, so the band remain bound by the deal memo until a contract is signed, no matter how long that takes.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.