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" A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go. "
People
Done
Everything
" Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that? "
Rock
Responsibility
Haircut
" Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do. "
Everyone
Up
You
" 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. "
Good
Music
Interesting
" I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews. "
Other
Bands
Interviews
" 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. "
Feel
Kind
Find
" I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses. But my culture in junior high was totally influenced by it. "
Culture
Just
High
" 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. "
Think
Show
Laser
" 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. "
Side
Up
Church
" I had a somewhat religious upbringing. Not strict, but it was there, and I'm kind of thankful for that. If you grow up just watching MTV, that's its own form of religion, and it's not even based on happiness or communal responsibility. I mean, try to construct a worldview out of that. "
Responsibility
Thankful
You
" I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time. "
Love
Great
iPhone
" I'm not a good hipster - if I let my moustache grow for weeks, it just looks like I have dirt on my face. I'll never have a glorious handlebar moustache. "
Never
Good
Face
" I'm not practising, I don't go to church, but what I got from it was a sense of belonging to something bigger. What I really miss is being forced to be in a community with people that aren't the same as you. Then, you really have to work through the ways that you're different. "
Work
People
Go
" I'm not someone who can dance to a song I don't like. "
Who
Dance
Like
" I never really felt super-Texan. It wasn't like I was unhappy, but I wasn't superhappy. "
Felt
Like
Never
" 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. "
College
Work
Think
" I think there's some pretty amazing language in the Bible. "
Bible
Amazing
Language
" It's a lot easier to sabotage your career than to have a career to sabotage. "
Your
Than
Career
" It seems like the record industry made so much crazy money in the 1960s that everyone wanted to get in on it. Now it's just become very corporate. So all of these people who despise music end up being in charge. "
End
Crazy
Money
" 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. "
Sick
Rock
Music
" My favorite English teacher in high school showed me 'Brazil' when I was 15, and it blew my mind. It's one of those movies that's revealed itself in different ways as I've gone back to it over the years. "
Teacher
High School
School
" My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water. "
Live
Time
Parents
" Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused. "
Focused
Energy
Music
" The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me. "
Rock
Life
Cool
" The film 'Black Orpheus' is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil. "
Carnival
Brazil
Time
" The Flaming Lips have been on Warner Bros. forever, and certainly everything I heard growing up was on a major label in some way, from the Cure to Radiohead to Bjork. "
Growing Up
Growing
Way
" The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind. "
House
Dancing
Bad
" The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless. "
Useless
Talking
Other
" 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. "
You
Music
Church
" There are so many bands that I'm kind of aware of through media about them, and it ends up filtering my experience of the actual music. "
Through
Music
Media
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