You see guys who come from nothing, working so hard at what they do. I think that's one of the reasons the game is so good, something that makes the product better. You get talent from everywhere.

I think that's Australian baseball. We're going to fight and we're not going to give up until the last out.

At school, I was the only guy who played baseball. Everyone thought I was a little different. There are a lot of people who can play baseball out there.

That was my main goal, to end his hitting streak. The guy's a good hitter. He's going to have another one.

We wanted to make an album that sounds like our band, and not a heady, self-conscious studio project. Everyone tells us rock and roll is a shadow of itself--a sad old milk cow smiling at the farmer every morning. We still see a bucking bull smashing around the stable.

To me this album seems more energetic and raw, with more space — unlike the first one, which was about stacking up 50 guitars and 80 backing vocals on each track,