4. Standard interview question: What Lycia song is *your* favorite?

tara: Oh geez! I'm not sure I can pick just one! For emotional reasons I'll go with "Granada", for my own feelings of contentedness with what I created, I'll go with "Asleep in the River".

5. I once heard a story about how Mike was walking with a gothier companion and a fan came up and, assuming, because he looked like goth, that the companion was in Lycia and proceeded to tell him how much he/she loved Lycia and gushed on, not knowing Mike was actually the one she was looking for. Regardless of if the story is true, do you view your music as "goth" and what do you think of people who might expect you to look/act a certain way, based on your music?

tara: That story is absolutely true! Funny huh? The funny thing is that person had brought Mike a gift. So when he wrote the "Biggest Fan" back thanking them for the gift the person never responded. We used to show up at goth clubs where we were scheduled to play (because the booking agent booked us in those places, we could have cared less what kind of clubs we played in) and people would look at us like "who the hell are you and why are you here?". Mike looked like someone from Skynard on the Cold tour and I never fit in either because I'm no sickly thin waif with black lipstick. So it was always interesting. Some people didn't care at all what we looked like. It was obvious other people were let down because we weren't "cool" though.

Obviously a good portion of our fan base is Goth, and that's totally cool as far as I'm concerned. The problem I have is when they want you to be like them. They want you to live by their dogmas and by their "code of ethics". We are who we are and we don't care who listens or doesn't listen to our music. We've never tried to be anything specific. We felt like we let a lot of people down at times for being ourselves and that's fucked up. Well, I'll speak for myself in regards to that because Mike might say something
different.

6. You've worked with other bands, such as Numina and Falling You. Was collaborating with those other artists an adjustment, after your other work being with someone you are so close to? Do you plan to do future collaborations?

tara: It wasn't an adjustment for me in regards to working with Numina. I just made vocal tapes and sent them to Jesse to manipulate. When I worked with Falling You I did what he asked me to do, which doesn't happen in Lycia, so that may have been a little weird for me. Mike has always wanted his collaboraters to do what comes naturally to them and doesn't really give direction. I will probably do more collaborations in the future. I'm hoping to do something with Timothy Renner of Stone Breath.