Quotes from Fab Moretti

We're very respectful of what we have.

I'd love to work with Rick Rubin. He made some pretty seminal records.

You have to live in the moment and do the best that you can and be true to that moment.

We do the press because we know logically it influences how we are perceived, but we don't pay attention to it after the fact.

A long, long time ago, I was in front of the 'Mona Lisa' and I heard someone saying, 'Ugh! Take your photo and go!' And it bummed me out. Shouldn't there be more of a reverent experience?

We would play in this little room in my houseand my parents would bang on the walls: 'Stop playing so loud!'

I'm happy that as many people who wanna listen to us can listen to us.

Nah, I don't play golf.

We're geeks that wear the clothes we've been wearing for the past five to ten years.

There's a way that mirrors can be portals towards vanity, but there are also ways they can be portals towards self-reflection and understanding.

We've gotten a grasp on fame and tamed it and the media.

The polarity of Mitch Mitchell and Moe Tucker offers a pretty good understanding of what a drummer's role is.

It's not so much that art is difficult to make; it's that the structures and the kind of prejudices that the art world constructs make it seem like creating art is this insurmountable task.

Even though the mainstream doesn't recognize garage as much or as prevalently as those crazy huge bands, garage does get the privilege of being looked upon as something that's cool even by people that don't understand it.

I have no discretion when it comes to airing things.

We understand that there is a certain protocol. You have to do press in order to continue, and we understand that. It's not like I sit at home with a picture of some press guy shooting darts at him.

The hype got people to recognize us, and we appreciate that, but we don't invest much attention or credit to the hype. Because when we do, at any moment, whoever is giving that hype can take it away just as easily... and then we're lost.

I would rather play a club show, just because it tends to make a much livelier show. You can connect with people when it's a smaller crowd.

I think the only way for us to move forward is to take care of each other and understand each other better and become cells in a communal body that moves forward in coordination and not in aggression or tension. A lot of that has to do with giving people the chance to express themselves, but also giving people the chance to feel important.

In music you don't punch out at the end of the day.

Just living out in California, it really puts you in a different mind frame.

We give ourselves enough free time to work on music and also to get royally happy.

It's a difficult thing to stamp your songs with a label, to stamp your record with a theme. Often times that compromises what you're doing.

Themes rise and fall. Kingdoms rise and fall. Religions rise and fall.