We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

Make your life a work of art and you will never die.

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.

I confess I found it somewhat insipid when I last went....it was all so prosy - so bonnety - so whisty and teacuppy - you see, the adjectives for it do not even exist, and I must invent them.

The earth is supported by the power of truth it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow indeed all things rest upon truth.

Do you think that people will obey the truth because it is true, unless they love it? No, they will not. Truth is obeyed when it is loved.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

Passion is the genius of genius.