I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.

I have three brothers. Poor Mum; four boys.

When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I feel like writing music is a great chance to create something that extends beyond yourself.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

There is a balance in between where you can still make art, but it does not have to be insular.

You don't make a film and then be like I am only going to play it in my house and no-one is going to see it - that is ridiculous.

I feel like it is only music where people are like, "You can't do this for other people, you have to do it for yourself." Which I hate.

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!

He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again.

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Dating, like almost every other male-female interaction in present-day society, is based on outmoded and unequal social roles and expectations.

Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Mistakes were made. Others were blamed.

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music, and some acapulco shirts.