Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.
The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing: go to a voodoo ceremony, and then go to a Catholic church and tell me which music you liked better, to which one the music is more integral.
I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible.
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
The work that Partners in Health do in Haiti benefits the whole world.
Funny songs aren't usually that good. Like Weird Al and maybe a couple of Beatles songs, but it's kind of hard to bring humor into rock music in an interesting way.
I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.
I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy.
I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.
Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
If you think about it, if you've ever been to a Catholic service, it's practically a laser light show. It's very dramatic, very theatrical. The outfits they wear, it's all designed to be impressive.
My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.
I was really sick of bands just ignoring the audience as a posture in rock music. And I think we fed off each other in terms of trying to engage the audience, not in a hammy way, but actually trying to be aware of the space that you are playing in and trying to connect in some way through the music.
Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.
The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.
I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic.
I studied the Bible and philosophy in college, and I think in a certain sense that's the kind of stuff that still makes my brain work.
