I'm not really allowed to talk about the Dead though. I think when we are at our best, we definitely do things that the Dead or no other band could do. We explore things and take things to the extreme.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
I don't just talk to the dead.
One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers.
We're a live band. It's what we do best.
It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's opinions on what they see. A lot of people project stuff on you, but that's okay.
Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.
People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.
Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.
I make music to bring the dead to life for a couple minutes and then let it go.