I love laugh lines. It means you've had a good life.
I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.
I think there's just so much awesome music coming out of New Zealand, I've always loved The Naked And Famous, I absolutely love Ghost Wave. . . it just seems like there's a really cool scene happening out there, I'd love to go and spend some time there and see what other bands are popping up.
I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.
I think something for us that we're always interested in is how people interpret the music or the band for themselves, and that sort of level of interactivity for us specifically is really awesome, but I can imagine for some bands the ability to make your sound and make your identity known could be challenging.
Which even though we do have a very visual aesthetic and identity, we love it when people make their own videos to the music.
I think it's almost a unique control that artists can have now more than they ever did, I think if you don't be proactive about how you want your music to be visually represented, I think other people will do it for you - so how comfortable are you with people putting their own two cents on it?
Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
Hit hard, hit fast and hit often
It's better to decide wrongly than weakly. If you're weak, you're likely to be wrong anyway.
The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.