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.

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.

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.

There are no truths, only stories.

Up from the ashes come the roses of success.

Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …

I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

Black folk, a lot of us lived as victims in a certain part of our history. And we had to really erase that tape. We're not victims. We are citizens.

A dry soul is wisest and best.

When making a decision, focus on what feels "shackles off" versus "shackles on".

The most important thing in my life is Christ.