Though, obviously, it's either going to happen organically or not. He was listening to Peter Gabriel and The Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack. He brought in another element, the other side of the coin. But I've had a thing for female vocalists, like Curve, and old Lush, and PJ Harvey, but Jeff Buckley has been a huge influence on me. There's no weak link in this band.
Every element is so strong.
I respect Shannon and think he was an amazing singer, but I also know that I'm my own singer and no one is like me either. I was really impressed with what they were doing, so I kept in touch from the road. By early 1999, it gelled, and we progressed and it turned into the band it is now. It's a hard thing to be in a band, so when this thing happened, I was excited, because the people were mellow and it was the exact kind of music I wanted. In a seventh-grade version, he was trying to connect everything, to connect quantum theory with the theory of relativity.