“I’m a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we’ve been in many bands.”

I’m a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don’t understand.

I’m my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

I’m not a good guitar player.

As far as the grunge thing, there are three bands from Seattle that I would call true grunge.

But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

And there are places on the border, such as the Arizona desert or the open terrain around the Big Bend in South Texas, where Mother Nature has created her own barrier that is not easily passable. Or if you do pass through it, you are easily detected.

Our jobs make relentless calls on a narrow band of our faculties, reducing our chances of achieving rounded personalities and leaving us to suspect (often in the gathering darkness of a Sunday evening) that much of who we are, or could be, has gone unexplored.

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don’t realize there’s a lot of craft behind the comedy.

I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that I need to do a jazz project and it ought to be either big band or I should do some jazz songs with a trio or quartet.

THE LAW OF THE CONTRACTION: A brand becomes stronger when you narrow its focus.

When I got to university, I played in bands and did sketch stuff and it was always about coming up with material, which is why I never really practised and have no chops!!