FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.

She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began

There are more treasures hiding in between your ears than can be hidden in the whole earth.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

You need to get up in the morning and say, 'Boy, I'm going to - in my own stupid way - save the world today.'

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.

Men who have much to say use the fewest words.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

I think I would want to make toys. Maybe it's that thing about trying to be a kid forever.

Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.