Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.

I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

Arrogance kills creativity.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries.

Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

Little moments can have a feeling and a texture that is very real.

I hope I can make Pakistan proud by bringing home an Oscar.

I'm like a fine-tuned race car. You've got to make frequent pit stops when you drink as much tea as I do.