“I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.” ThinkingChildrenStuffSoundChurchSingingSmellMelodyAestheticImpressedRenaissanceHymns Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.” KnowsWantCan DoNiceBandNobody KnowsNice ThingsDo Whatever You Want Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.” KindClearFocus Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.” WayKindStoriesBehindsOne ThingEmotionalMusic IsReactionsAll KindsProvokingEmotional Reactions Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“When I was writing some of songs for the record in Galapagos it was the feeling of being there I wanted to evoke more than anything. I remember hearing all the parts of the songs in my mind when I was walking around over the lava fields.” WritingMindFeelingsWantedRememberSongRecordsFieldsWalkingHearingBeing ThereEvokeLava Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.” DoneHappensSpiritualConcernedAlbumsArtistic Author:Paul Banks
“My influences are vast and varied. I was into classic rock at the same time that I was into hip-hop. It was just that hip-hop was the first music that I got really really into. Rock was right on its tail.” FirstsInfluenceRocksHip HopHipsClassicHopsTailsClassic Rock Author:Paul Banks
“If you're an artist, you do what you do, and in a way, you don't even control the core essence of what you do. You try to mold it and develop a style, but the core elements of what you do are just part of who you are.” IfsWayTryingArtistStyleElementsEssenceWho You AreCoreMold Author:Paul Banks
“You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.” IdeasCareersPureUnconsciousTapping Author:Paul Banks