I don't really believe in the use of drum machines live.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaWisdom: Something you can learn without knowing it.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.

I'm drinking lots of herbal tea.

When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past... And when you are seventy, nearly all of you.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.