They've chosen the appropriate time to discuss it is now.

Realistically, the chances of a breakthrough are very slim given the rigidity of the U.S. position on key issues.

They've chosen the appropriate time to discuss it is now. I think what they're doing is negotiating. They're putting out a maximal position.

We are signatories to ILO conventions, and we don't think we have done anything in contravention of the agreements. We will answer the complaint point by point. This is not the proper way to address the problem, and we would have preferred to have face-to-face discussions.

[Toward the end of the Howl sessions, Nick Jago returned.] He'd been in England, on his 'vision quest,' as he says, ... I think it involved looking to the bottom of a bottle or two. Finally he figured out he'd rather be in this band than somewhere else, and we'd rather have him in this band.

A lot of these songs were written for our first album. One of them, 'Shuffle Your Feet,' was from before we were a band even. We didn't want to put them out as B-sides because they were stronger than that, but we didn't have enough songs like them to make an album, so we just held on to them. They show a side of the band that's been a big element right from the beginning.