Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

We've always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we're not a band with big songs.

Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.

There's political content in almost every song we've ever written on some level. It colors everything.

This last best luck of all: that earth should gape for me when my great deeds were ended.

And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.

Time is an illusion, timing is an art.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

Every time you play you have energy within you - universal energy. That's the energy that keeps everything together - the planets, the galaxies. Everything.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.

Storybook happiness involves every form of pleasant thumb-twiddling; true happiness involves the full use of one's powers and talents.

Be patient with all that is unsolved in your life. Learn to love the questions themselves, until some distant day, without your knowing, you will have lived into the answers.

I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.