An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.

Those who are actively seeking enlightenment will not find it because the act of looking for it is the distraction from it.

We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.

Developing this ability instills a sixth sense for navigating human relationships with dignity, grace, and discretion, thus making an intentional and thoughtful first impression.

I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

I think I might do an animated film next. I'm serious.

No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.