Our only objective when we're writing new music is "let's not tread water."
I feel like I always need to leave the city in order to be in songwriting mode. There's just too much stimuli in New York.
Caring about songcraft is a really good thing to care about! I see no fault in caring about crafting a good song and caring about how it's presented and how it's made and trying to do something new.
I went to college to become a journalist. And then I started to do these little songs in my bedroom because I was depressed and I found it cathartic, like writing in a diary.
It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular personality, as opposed to a more anonymous group of people playing music.