Ted Dwane

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

Because we are four creative people - four writers - there was no way that we were ever going to be satiated doing the same thing over and again. Change was inevitable for us. And a very natural thing.

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

We always try to make each record a snapshot of the band at that time.

A lot of the time, if you go into an arena, they're pretty uninspiring. But we try to create an atmosphere.

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity.

I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher said I'd get twice as much work, as there's not enough players out there.