You can't help hearing things that are popular when you're young and impressionable.

There's too much rock that relies a fetishism or nostalgia for the old ways. That's a real enemy to music.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

The live experience and the recorded experience are totally different. When you're recording an album, you won't be able to immerse people in sound. When you play live, you want to grab people on the visceral level. They're completely different.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.