Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.

Women do not admit to the past, they mourn for past even less. They grab from each moment anything they can reach.

By writing, we partake in something greater than ourselves. Pick up pen and paper or take a seat at your computer today and create something of beauty.

Be great, read great books.

Thou oh my country hast thy foolish ways Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

I didn't just invent saying offensive things.

Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.