'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
They may fall off the pop charts, some might even lose the muse. But these days old rock stars need not worry about fading away, not when there's a college classroom nearby.
"I know it sounds crazy, but from my perspective the goal is the same," he says of playing music and teaching science. "The thing about the band is we've always been about asking questions and provoking people to think. We never maintain that we have the answers, and that's very consistent with a scientific pursuit."
"I don't feel a lot different between being up on stage at a punk concert and being at the podium in a lecture hall," says Graffin.