These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it didn't.

We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

The Spirit filters through what I want and shows me who I am.

Humility is like underwear essential but indecent if it shows.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Obsolete comments are worse than no comments.

I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'Green'?