I try to sing whatever the music makes me feel. And we play so much music from the other records at shows that I hope no one will miss the old style too much.

I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.

Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.

Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.

Sophomore records are historically really difficult.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.

It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

They had a saying: An Arab loves in the order of: his son, his camel, and his wife - but there were times when one was allowed to take precedence over the other!

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

I cannot comment on a video that I have never seen or does not exist.