Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

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.

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.

The energy of love is indestructible

That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.

It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.

Scott Wilson (Hershel) is a god among men

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job.

Behind every successful child is an adult who believed in him.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

The complaints which anyone voices against his mate indicate exactly the qualities which stimulated attraction before marriage.