'Goliath' is about nine, 10 minutes long, and the end of it is so interesting, we didn't really want it to be used as a single.
I had foot problems, and I ended up having to get surgery.
It's great to just keep going and throw new stuff out there.
To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.
We all turn into something different, I'm just glad that I'm aware that I've had this alter ego since I was five years old and thankfully it hasn't got me into too much trouble.
When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.
I constantly ask why one of my kids has the tantrums that he does, and it's not because he sees videos of me acting like that onstage but because we're bound by blood.
That romantic notion of a band being a total democracy is just like lying to yourself in the mirror.
But although I appreciate our audience, we don't do things for them. It's all for us - we play really self-indulgent music.
I do have a sense of spirituality.
At the Drive-In was very meat and potatoes - a one-trick pony. Everyone was attracted to us because we put on a good live show.
As corny as it sounds, and not to sound like a hippie, I think there are these spirit forces in nature, and we have to be careful not to offend them.
I think that's what propelled our band, the fact that we put on something that was visibly attractive to people and then maybe the music comes later. I don't know what it is that people really like about us but that's part of the equation.
Most people like to backpack through Europe; I think the States is big enough for you to have an adventure in.
I was in dire need of a band that was serious about getting out of El Paso.
It all started in a local park in El Paso called Madeleine Park. At a ditch, a very small ditch, that everybody used to go skateboarding in. It was me and Jim Ward and an acoustic guitar. He and I constructed the very first phases of At The Drive In.
Our music would probably be a really dark ocean, so you may not know where you are. It's not so literal. It's like a David Lynch movie.
Sometimes 'Frances' can be about finding the missing piece, trying to look for biological family as opposed to maybe realizing your family is whoever is around you at the time.
To me, prog-rock is ELP. And for me personally, that stuff is really boring.
I would feel weird if I wasn't able to be longwinded, or have information-overload on our songs.
