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.

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.

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.

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

The gospel of salvation, the divine truth, set us free.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

I'm a lapsed Buddhist like I'm a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Anything worth doing is worth doing twice, the first time quick and dirty and the second time the best way you can.

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

It's different hearing girls I don't even know scream my name.

I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found.

Focusing on the negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult