I think it affects you negatively, but at the same time you're not usually basing your concerns or worries on what others are going to think or what other people have actually said. What they think is usually a projection of what you think, somehow externalizing your self-criticism and imagining how someone else would react. Whether it's the mainstream music press or the indie-rock music press, they're not held to the same objective standards that the AP or Reuters are held to. They're used in some ways by the record companies as a way to promote the music. No one is going to sue somebody for libel if he writes a bad review.
Any press is good press.
I don't want to pay much attention to it, and I don't think it's a completely negative thing. It is a real nightmare. I feel so misrepresented, because people read those things and they think that's who you are and what you're saying. It's incredibly enjoyable. Everybody in this band is a leader in another band, so it means there's no total slapdick in the group.