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.

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

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.

I know my lies are always wishes.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

Yo Mama’s so ugly, her Mama had to tie a steak around her neck to get the dogs to play with her.

Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them.

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Put together every little bit of goodness that you have known and you have your being.

Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.