Eels: If Electro-Shock Blues was the phone call in the middle of the night that the world doesn't want to answer, then Daisies of the Galaxy is the hotel wake-up call that says your lovely breakfast is ready.
Eels: (About his record, Electro-shock Blues) I have songs that are five times darker than the darkest stuff on this record, but I don't put them out because they don't offer the world anything. Some of those songs have no redeeming quality other than that they're just me venting my rage. I'm not interested in making everyone listen to that.
Eels: I like to make records where you just don't know what's going on and you don't know who did what. In the old days you wouldn't get a track-by-track listing of who did what. I think for some reason that takes out some of the magic for me. My favorite sounds are sounds that you can't identify. If you don't know what it is, then it really makes a straight connection to your heart.
Eels: (About his album Souljacker) The stuff we're working on now is really heavily polka influenced, there's a lot of clarinets and tubas. I think it's going to be a big hit on [Los Angeles modern rock station] KROQ . . . Having a big KROQ hit just means a bunch of assholes start coming back to your concerts. Maybe that sounds bad, but it's kind of true. I might be the only artist who has actively worked at paring down his audience over the years to keep out the jocks and the assholes.
Eels: If you're disappointed in the state of things, then you have some idea of what things could be, and I do recognize the good things in people and the world we live in. It's my job to celebrate those things as well.
Eels: I wouldn't be alive without music, and I just thank God I've had that to focus on.
Eels frontman E has written the score for the
Everett's (founder/writer/vocals/instruments) father was famed quantum physicist Hugh Everett III, author of the Many Worlds Theory.
One of the songs on the Eels 2005 album features Everett's hound dog, Bobby, Jr., howling a lonesome solo.
Tom Waits is a fan of Eels, and joined in on a song on the album Blinking Lights and Other Revelations (2005). Waits insisted on crying, screaming or bleating his contribution to this certain Eels album.
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