It's a very different feeling just sitting around the side, playing piano, and dancing around as opposed to standing in front and singing.

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

I get more excited about like, "How nice is the piano?" or "How does the room sound?" I don't really see the gear so much anymore.

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

I just like dealing with scientists for awhile and then going over and dealing with musicians for awhile. They both have qualities that kind of counterbalance each other.

I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

The nice thing about being a band that nobody knows about is that you can do whatever you want.

I like having some things very clear while other things are obscured... so that it kind of keeps coming into and out of focus.

It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.

Wizard is as wizard does.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

When in doubt, do the courageous thing.

You hurt the ones you love the most. Because it hurts you the most.

Predictability brings about security.

The appropriate length of a name is inversely proportional to the size of its scope.

If you've got nothing worth dying for, you've got nothing worth living for.

Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.

My friends in prison were mostly women more like myself: not historical figures who I did not relate to as peers, but hookers and addicts.

But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.