I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

Making music is a total hassle, really.

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in 4/4, people might not like to dance to it.

The features of character are carved out of adversity.

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

We need people to think. We need people to think better. We need people to think more. Reflection is a valuable tool, but only in the way to drive a way forward.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.

Complaining doesn't make a difference; it's useless and it's wasted energy.

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.