I have the same birthday as George Washington. No I don't. I don't even know who George Washington is.

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.

FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

Everything we experience in life is designed to shape our characters.

I am very familiar with the sound of loss.

With the warmth of an alien sun on his back, Jacob took a deep breath at the door and knocked.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

It's the melody within the heart that helps us to endure.

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

You always exaggerate things in a movie. If it makes a good visual and it excites the kids that's good.

He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.