Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.

When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

It's awkward, because sometimes you find new friends that are cooler than your old friends, and then your old friends desperately try to cling on to you even though you sort of hate them by now.

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.

Even though there's stuff that I really like that is just a retro sort of style or whatever, I feel like what I'm most excited by is new mixes of things.

I feel like in a conversation if things get said and then repeated, it sort of becomes inherently part of the narrative whether you want it to be or not.

I always dreamed of going out to space. The idea of going to a planet where nobody's ever been is attractive to me, it just suits my nature.

The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.

Anomalocaridids seemed to lack front limbs, being an arthropod - being a joint-legged animal - and not having legs, it's kind of embarrassing.

A fine timepiece is part of dressing like a gentleman. When I first made a little money, I bought my first watch which was a Rolex Daytona. It was just one of those things that said I was successful.

Money will not purchase character or good government.

If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has always contributed most to glory and success.

The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.