“Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It’s almost about the marriage of the band.”

There’s political content in almost every song we’ve ever written on some level. It colors everything.

Everybody knows we’re big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It’s impossible for us to separate the songs we’re writing from what’s going on in the world.

We’ve always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we’re not a band with big songs.