Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

I know my lies are always wishes.

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of.

Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

All things except reason and order are possible with a mob.

New occasions teach new duties.

When one sense has been bribed the others readily bear false witness.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

I never intended to be a politician or office-seeker.