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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.

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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.

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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.

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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

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We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.

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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

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I'm too tasteful for my pants.

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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.

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