But we're still rehearsing and planning to make a new album next year. We have some really good new songs that we've already been playing on that last tour that we just finished.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

You. Aren’t you one of those Morgan boys? You must be the bad one.

death had just shred a tear

The biggest gap in your life is between what you know and what you do.

Self-discipline is a great time-saver; it is the ability to make yourself work on only those things that are most important to you.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there.

You used to be fly, but you crashed your plane.

I think the art world will continue to be a place where people have a certain freedom and creativity to think about what's happening in Cuba.

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.