We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music that does that.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Perfectionists are patient, the diligent are persevering, and the relentless are successful.

The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such.

So the fact that the first movie about Steve Jobs was made by a guy who was completely entrepreneurial and outside the film industry, I think is very appropriate.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

I do think that acting is such an unpredictable job, and you're away a lot. If you're dating somebody outside the industry, it can be hard to understand that.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.