Pardon Me - I was in a bookstore, browsing through an old Life magazine, when I saw a picture of what the article called spontaneous human combustion. There were an old guy's legs and shoes, perfectly intact...then, right around his knee area, was just a pile of charred ashes. I was going through some turmoil in my life, both good and bad, and the image struck a chord, so...I wrote a song about it. You never know when the inspiration for a song is gonna hit you, so you've gotta be ready. Drive - Scott [Litt] had a big hand in arranging and producing this track with us. The lyric is basically about fear, about being driven all your life by it and making decisions from fear. It's about imagining what life would be like if you didn't live it that way. Stellar - The lyrics were inspired by my lover, Jo English girl I met in France. It's about love as a transcendental feeling, like free-floating in outer space. It's kind of a traditional song in that way. Nowhere Fast - We've been exploring drum-'n'-bass here and there on stage, playing little improvisational ditties in between real songs from the records. José would start playing a drum-'n'-bass he'd made up, I'd play my didgeridoo to it, and songs started forming out of live things like that. That's how "Nowhere Fast" was written, through improvisational live jams. Battlestar Scralatchtica - We have two guest turntablists on this one, DJ Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark. They're from Jurassic 5, a West Coast hiphop group, very good--amazing, in fact. They're friends of DJ Kilmore and this track is a three-way DJ battle. I don't know who wins, but we'd love to recreate it on stage if we ever get the opportunity.