We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But then they have to listen to it again.

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.

Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did

Life can be awkward at times. It is part of the growing process.

His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.

Service dogs raise their masters' sense of well-being.

Pride is bad, stress is good. I don't want to feel confident. I want to feel rage. Endless, all consuming rage.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to.

The greatest million dollar insight I can give anybody is find a big problem and then solve it in a big way.

Look at every action movie in Hollywood. Every leading man from Spider-Man to Batman to James Bond, 'Bourne Identity', every one of them possesses martial arts skills.

My films are as much concerned with truth as anything in vérité. Maybe more so.

Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.