I feel that's important that I have some place to go that isn't on the cover of a magazine. I signed up to make music.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

Bodies fall towards the earth as it is in the nature of the earth to attract bodies, just as it is in the nature of water to flow.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

How great seems human progress when we consider where it began, and how insignificant, when we contemplate the goals for which itstrives.

If you think that being vegan is difficult, imagine how difficult it is for animals that you are not vegan.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

Are you moving forward, or just moving?

Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out.