I think we could have done a lot more great music, so I was disappointed that we didn't continue making records and touring, but it's hard to argue with 10 good years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.
We were really motivated to do something with this record overseas, even though I hate touring.
It's trippy to think we have an album that's 10 years old. It's even trippier to think we have a couple of albums older than that.
Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.
As opposed to touring for three years and then going into the studio and writing an album, I think this record is representative of a lot of everyday people.
I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs.
I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions.