Anonymous asked: Do you guys ever consider the impact your music has on people's lives? After a failed suicide attempt, I found myself in hospital with a lengthy recovery process ahead of me. Your music, particularly The Galilean Satellites, was really one of the things that got me through that entire ordeal. It was as if there was this other, peaceful, world I could climb into and be alone with. Looking back now I can't help but wonder if any of you think about or realize just how... monumental your art can be.

As in the earlier answer, this is one of those cases where it’s hard to imagine what the music might mean to someone else. Sure, we consider what our music might say to people, but sometimes it’s intimidating to think about and can provoke a sense of unease — because there’s a tension between artistic freedom and integrity on one hand and responsibility to people on the other. Put another way, it’s uncomfortable sometimes to realize that what you make does affect and influence others, but in ways that you can’t ever really control. Further, there’s also a realization that the people who make the music can never BE as “epic” or “monumental” as the music itself is… because we’re just people like anybody else. So there’s always the risk that the reality of the people behind the music may disappoint the fans of that music.