It's not that we don't want to be all over the radio. I'd love to have a hit single. However, I also want to be in the business a long time and longevity is something that we all wanted. In order to have that, you have to be true to what you do and to each other.
When we do get to the point where things aren't good, we know how to smarten up and fix it before it gets ugly.
Every so often in the last 20 years, Hollywood has called. And every time they've called, we've answered? because they have lots of money.
Well, you know, when you're putting together a show, you've got to be careful not to load it up with the new stuff. We have to play the songs that people want to hear, too. People may come thinking, "Oh, I've just got to hear this song." Or maybe they'll write me a letter saying a certain song is really meaningful to them, so we'll be sure to play those songs.
I'd like to see a quiet album and go back to being sparse again, because this album is such a big album, ... I'd like to go back to being as sparse as we possibly can.
Everybody wants to change the world. But I guess how we want to change it is a little bit more quietly than other bands.
