At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything takes longer than you think it will. Occasionally things happen fast.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.

I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

Machines can't lie, " I said, lying through my circuits.

I don't have a command for 'stop wagging your tail'.

An angry man will find himself in an angry world, and a swindler will find himself in a world of thieves whom he dare not trust. Like attracts and mirrors like.

I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

When anything is pointed out, our only idea is to go from wrong to right; in spite of the fact that it has taken us years to get to wrong we try to get right in a moment.

Man is the being whose project it is to be God.

I won't call myself a failure. Failure is not getting knocked down. It's not getting up.

We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.