I do play soccer, but it's exhausting in a way.

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.

Don't turn blue all over now.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle

Our number one responsibility is to protect the homeland.

The girly movie i secretly love is Pippy Longstockings.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.