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.

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.

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.

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.

Ignore the people who advise you patience! There is no time for patience! Those who are patient for many years about anything are mad!

I engage in subtle stalking. That's entirely different and perfectly socially acceptable.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.

Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

While I had cancer, I wrote these twenty-two personal essays about how I lived my life backed by Zen and writing.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.