For fans of that record, this is going to be a very cool item. The Soft Bulletin gave us such a different perspective and a new life -- there's a richness there that will be fun to go back and revisit.

I don't think all the record has a radical, political, overthrow-the-government sort of vibe to it, but I think some of it does. But I don't want anyone to think that I really am trying to overthrow the government with our music, or stop the war with our music - that's just for fools.

It's cool to say that you have an NHL record and it's something that I'll remember.

It isn't all about some band promoting a single or a promoter trying to make money or something. (When they started), I think people just assumed it would be this disorganized thing.... The more these things work, the more they're successful, the better off these things will be.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

We really attempted it in a full-force Flaming Lips behemoth production style. We recorded 100 tracks of our beloved pedal steel guitar and 100 guitar overdubs for the music, and for the vocals we stacked all these crazy harmonies. We wanted to add different layers that people might expect from us, but we tried hard not to change the fundamental nature of the song.