A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

A real woman's blood pressure will go up when another man touch her, in anger of me losing my dignity and not because she likes it.

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Whatever will bring in the most money will happen.

You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

Jobs will come back when the economy recovers, but they will never be the same.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.