Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Once a minute passes it can never be reclaimed.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

Whitecaps in profusion all around me, but somehow in your eyes I found the strength to sail upon that raging sea.

The last true punk band to get a major label contract was The Dickies.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.

To be the England manager you must win every game, not do anything in your private life and hopefully not earn too much money!