I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.

I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

Compared to Eternity, The seconds of "Now" are more valuable than all the money and valuables in the world combined.

The days were sunny, the nights were star-studded. Indeed married life was strawberries for breakfast and loving all the time.

What makes a good pinch hitter? I wish the hell I knew.

A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.

What I will do is put America first. People don't like to use that term of America first, but we're going to make America great again by putting America first.

Lucretius, who follows [Epicurus] in denouncing love, sees no harm in sexual intercourse provided it is divorced from passion.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.

Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.