Jonathan Meiburg - I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the c

I certainly think there are things that impressed me as a child about the church. The smells and the sounds and the pagaentry of it remained with me. The aesthetic I really love. I think a lot of my sense of melody comes from singing those hymns and doing the renaissance music and stuff.

- Jonathan Meiburg

source: "Shearwater". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. April 24, 2007.