The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.

How to advise parents for being successful in raising children stillremains an important unsolved problem.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

The world is beautiful but not sayable. That's why we need art.

Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.

I'm not a materialist, I don't care for things. I don't like cars, I hate things that can be exploited. I live a simple life. The only luxuries I have in my life are travel and food.

I know God is working so I smile!

L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.

Abigail Adams could become my favorite historical sleuth.

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.