You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.

If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.

Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

I do feel like at the end of anger I have to have something that grounds it.

Some people never need to let up at all.

I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.

I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.

There's a definite machinery behind everything that a band does, and sometimes it's hard to figure out how far to go in delegating certain responsibilities and staying COMPLETELY DIY.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

I'm even old-school Instagram. I'm here for your "What did you have to eat today?" I'm fine with that.

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.

The best writing is embarrassing

A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.

You know what days these are? The days of Elijah. We are in the days of Elijah! Fire is falling down from heaven!

I run everywhere and eavesdrop. It's the best way to see a city.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.