A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

Music is about your feelings.

We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.

When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.

The shows are the main way our lives have changed.

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

If you're to explain your works, then surely you have chosen wrong audience!

When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.

like many families, everyone wandered around like children in a funhouse—they could hardly see one another around the corners, and what they could see was completely distorted.

'The Comeback' is my favorite TV show of all-time because it's just brill. It's Lisa Kudrow's show about what it's like to be an actor on a TV show. She's so amazing on it.

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

The moment Germany rises as a great power, France gains a new importance as a cultural power.

It actually took me 20 years to want to write about my youth. I was definitely always a little intimidated about writing about that part of my life.

Joe Paterno was a well-educated man, and he was also a man from a different time.

In the end all collaborations are love stories.