What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's like a first cousin.

The traditional American family has always been the foundation for success in America.

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.