Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

Making music is a total hassle, really.

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.

We lose our soul, to find our life.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him.

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

A lot of people think that I grew up in recording studios and knew the whole process, but that was never the case.

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.