Was it hard to get Warner Brothers to accept the record as is, in basically demo form?
No. I mean, Dave Fridmann’s a great producer. And Warner Brothers, they wouldn’t know it’s a demo. We don’t have to do demos for them, either. It’s just for us to know where this thing is going to go. And all the people at Warner love anything that we do, support any of the ideas. I don’t think it occurred to them it would be demos. When I speak of it now, they can hear it. Like, Oh, that bit is clumsy. But they sit back and listen to it and are like, cool. That’s always been the kind of strange relationship with the label, especially for a band that’s so freaky like we are. Is there going to be a single for radio? I don’t really know if there’s a single. I’m going to make some videos for “I Can Be a Frog,” “Watching the Planets,” and “See the Leaves.” Well, at least you made that non-album single earlier this year, the cover of Madonna’s “Borderline.” Totally. We like that song. Did you ever hear from Madonna about it? Um, no. But we still could. I never considered it, to tell you the
