I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'd all still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.

The more I learn, the less I know.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite.

Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

There's more to life than books you know, but not much more.