Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.
Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.
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.
If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.
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.
But when our first album came out, I didn't think it was going to sell a lot of records.
Bands don't last. Bands don't last forever - it's a rarity when they do.
Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
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.