The whole band can be a contradiction. We're doing the indie label stuff because we can, and the major label stuff because we can. It doesn't matter to me if it comes out on Interscope or it comes out on Sympathy. It's out there and that's what's important. There's a lot of uncharted territory out there that needs to be rediscovered, rehashed, or whatever.
People forget about things.
Rock and roll is a pretty huge palette for us, all the stuff from earlier periods. Some people say 'That's not rock,' but in 1958, it was. Or in 1972 it was. Lately I've been getting into a lot of white soul stuff, Small Faces and so on, white guys trying to play soul music. I still get disillusioned by the whole scene quite a lot, but it reinvents itself to me almost on a daily basis.