Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

We never could understand what the problem was with people listening to your music. I thought that was the whole point.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.