Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

I know my lies are always wishes.

There is a ruthlessness to the creative act. It often involves a betrayal of the status quo.

If you don’t believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.

Flowers have the greatest talent in converting an ordinary place into a magical palace!

I had a lot of self-confidence.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.

If there is a streak of ham anywhere in an actor, Shakespeare will bring it out.

Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.

I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!