"I seriously think one huge theme that all of us love in music is a quality of something sounding otherworldly. It sent us chasing the past, but almost from a fictitious [or] science fiction approach." -- Joe Haege
"I guess you kind of have to follow where life takes you..." -- Ryan Sambol
"I think we like to keep it tense. I think we like to keep a really healthy balance of, 'Ohhh, everything could fall apart at any given moment.'" -- Josh Lambert
"There is a kind of sense of falling backward that I think the songs conjure. Or blindly driving your car into a wall. A sense of sadness in all the amazing things in the world." -- Ben Shemie
The Fresh & Onlys' music is known for being hazy. Taking cues from San Francisco's historic psychedelic music scene, the band layers an aura of cloudiness on top of what essentially are good 'ole pop tunes.
"Why not?" -- Brian Borcherdt
"Nothing holds up a process like an indispensable band member being both a perfectionist and a control freak. Especially when your band features three of these types." -- Danny Seim
"It's hard; I want to live my life and have money, but it's good to... question yourself... like, 'Am I giving back enough?' or, 'Am I doing enough?'" -- Merrill Garbus