"How do you prevent yourselves from doing the same things over and over again when performing?

I don’t sit at home and practice my guitar or practice my piano. That might be holding me back from becoming a bigger, stronger, better musician, but I think it’s what keeps me fresh and passionate about writing music and playing music. It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to have a lot of feeling behind it. We change our set list a lot and we’ve got five records worth of songs plus b-sides and covers that we’re constantly trying out and changing around. I think that the banter and the storytelling element of our show, which is somewhat of a necessity at this point, ‘cuz we just really love to connect with our audience...we’re both storytellers by nature." (read full interview with Tegan).

"Amanda: Has Tegan ever written a song that you have just disliked and not wanted on the album?

Sara: Sure, yes of course, we are very honest with each other. If I write something that Tegan isn’t into it doesn’t bother me, if I really love the song and she doesn’t get it I will ask her to listen to it more and then get back to me. But for the most part we have been writing music since we were 14, and there is only a handful of songs that I have ever really hated that Tegan has written. For the most part I am a huge fan of what she does and I think that she would say the same thing about me so we are quite lucky." (read full interview).