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You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Ultimately, running a band is about the relationships you have with people.

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that's like a marriage. It's an emotional connection, especially when you're young... because you don't know what's out there.

When you work on an album for three and a half years, you're kind of ready for it to get out there. To have your songs reach people.

The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.