The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.

No matter how naturally gifted you are, it's your passion that's going to make you better and maybe touch some people.

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music.

I've had nightmares about having to kick people out of my band because they've said that they don't like the Beatles. I'd wake up and turn to them and say, "You like the Beatles, right?"

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.

What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

Our friend Chewy doesn’t speak much, but he chews a lot of tobacco so we call him Chewbacco.

When in doubt do it.

People who are against me attack me personally. They attack the way I look physically, they attack the way I dress, they attack everything but what I say.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

Preparation can only take you so far , after that you've got to take a few leaps of faith

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

We feel much happier and more secure when we think we know precisely what to do, no matter what happens, then when we have lost our way and do not know where to turn.