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I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

The tricky thing is music is supposed to be very mysterious; the way it's made is mysterious. Then people like to get upset with the music business.

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

Bands are like people. They're born and then they die.

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

The music becomes something that is its own entity.