That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

Only in war does the madman become sane.

Loyalty is smart with patience.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

You can throw - and we've seen plenty of these kinds of companies - millions of dollars in advertising for a website or a service, and in the end if it's not useful no one's going to use it.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.

The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

We all know that a church is not a building.

If you want to be a better web hacker, hang out with a painter.