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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You are not worthless. Even if you've been called that your entire life.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.

I love working with women - I love women - and we need more women directors. We need more feminine sensibilities in movies.

As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

Having a sense of purpose in life is the best way to avoid dispair.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread.