Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

I want people to know that I'm a real person, and that I've been through normal situations, like crushes and heartbreaks.

As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

Many people know Christ as their Savior, but the woman who says yes to God longs to know Him as Lord.

Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses."

It's not his job, the president's, to pick winners and losers, nor to pass judgment on anybody.

And right action is freedom From past and future also.

We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.