This album is bigger and more lush than our previous stuff, ... We had the musicality and the ambition and the time to be more lush this time, to make more normal music.

It's good that we have the potential in the marketplace to reach bigger audiences, ... We're three people who are interested in music as art, but most of it won't ever be marketed as popular stuff.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

We really attempted it in a full-force Flaming Lips behemoth production style. We recorded 100 tracks of our beloved pedal steel guitar and 100 guitar overdubs for the music, and for the vocals we stacked all these crazy harmonies. We wanted to add different layers that people might expect from us, but we tried hard not to change the fundamental nature of the song.