Nothing like this has ever happened in Winona. This is the biggest thing that ever happened, ever. We're going to celebrate 'til next year.

We have to start strong and finish strong. Once you get on top of somebody, you have to keep pounding them with what you've been doing.

If there's a spirit of fun to the album, it's because we really approached it that way. Here, we have the freedom to do whatever we want. We have all these amazing talented people around us. How could it not be fun? I think we were able to create something really, really beautiful out of that.

It became not fun for anybody involved. We were just touring all the time, hating each other more and more. Now we can be friends again and have fun.

With The Unicorns, we really got thrust into a career out of nowhere. We started touring and it was really tough for the first several months. All of a sudden, one good Pitchfork review, and we were selling out shows left, right and center. It was a real whirlwind, and I think Alden just wanted to back off somewhat.

You never want to forget where you came from, and for this team, remembering November is a very important thing because we were not doing well, we were not having fun and we were not playing good hockey. To turn it around like we have is very nice, but we still have to remember that in November, we were a terrible hockey team and we have to remember the reasons why we were a terrible hockey team. It's because we weren't doing the little things that we're doing now.