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Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

In our early period we pretty much survived or perished on our capacity to reach people, and on getting into the pattern of having no money and playing lots of shows.

And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

Something happened in the nineties. There was a shift. I don't want to blame it on grunge or the rise of indie - but that was basically it. It was seen as dirty and kind of ignorant to have these ambitions, to want to be a big band.