The simpler songs are just done when the lyric has been stated; the more complex or band-oriented stuff can go in a million directions.

I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

I'm looking forward to doing things more intuitively in the future, just going with whatever happens and not immediately categorizing it as potentially good or bad or original or whatever.

The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.

I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

I don't know that we're really going to need a label for the things we're thinking about doing next.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The Tonys are also kind of like a homegrown party. You know everybody.

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.

The worst of all listeners is the man who does nothing but listen.

I always like seeing people transforming themselves, in whatever way that might be, and a different accent is part of that.

One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them. Mankind are governed more by their feeling than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!