Quotes from John Gourley

There's no making art for art's sake. You've got to make the best art you can.

Whether it be tour posters, album packaging, videos, stage design, etc., the visual aspect of music is very important to us.

It's OK to fail once in awhile.

I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.

It's so perfectly Alaska to be like, 'Dad we're going to the Grammys,' and for him to be like, 'Oh, well that's great, Johnny. All right, gotta go back to work.'

The Alaskan summers are one of the most amazing things you can see.

The reason I got into music was obviously because of bands like The Beatles and Pink Floyd, things like that.

I see a lot of people say you just make the music you wanna make and just love what you do, and that is what we do, but I wanna write the best songs we can.

I think there are really great movements happening in Portland. It's nice being in a place that supports itself and stands on its own.

Levis are my go-to. Plain crew necks and jeans.

We started playing music because of the Wu-Tang Clan.

Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

My first concert was Pantera.

Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

I like the challenge of writing music without being the coolest guy or band in the room.

When I talk to my mom and dad, and I'm in Paris, I'm like, 'Can you believe it?' It's ridiculous. I have a serious love for what we do. It's not something we take for granted.

I feel like rock n' roll has become very tame.

You can never predict a hit.

I feel like every album we make, that's our debut album.

We have an amazing job. We get to travel around the world and experience different cultures and just learn so many things.

The period in the name - huge mistake, I know. We didn't think about that. We never thought we were going to be written up in magazines. The second we saw it in print, like, what a mistake, man.

As an artist, you can't expect a producer to just bring you a record. If you walk in and say, 'I want Kanye West's 'Power,' it just doesn't work that way.

That's really important in a producer - a producer that can step up and play a keyboard, play a bass, play a guitar, and help you with things instead of just saying, 'I think this could be better.'

Great musicians need great producers. The Beatles had George Martin.