I don't believe every download is a lost sale.

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.

To make money buy some good stock hold it until it goes up and then sell it. If it doesn't go up don't buy it.

The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

I was never actually signed to the label; I was just the annoying rapper that was always around at the studio sessions.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

If you focus on all the things that could go wrong, you miss the things that could go right.

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.