Any Questions for VANDEN PLAS?

They've been a remarkably stable band. To what do they attribute their longevity and consistency? How do they keep their creative fires stoked? What bands are they listening to these days? Do they find inspiration in new artists?
 
This may be too far in the past, but I'd love to know the band's thought process when they released Accult. Everything from the song selection (how did they come to cover an utterly obscure Saigon Kick song alongside Marillion and Ray Charles) to reworking their own material to why they decided to do something like that after only a single studio album. That album still gives me the chills, and is why I'm so looking forward to their gold badge show this year.