I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

Dogs are not our whole life but they make our lives whole.

Well thank you, me old gobbler,' said Mr. Gum handing over some money that Billy William would later discover to be made out of lies and broken promises.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

Highly motivated achievers are looking not to receive but to contribute. They are looking for problems that are personally satisfying to solve.

You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth.

When you feel stuck in reverse, take a breath and let go.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.

For pity's sake, don't start meeting troubles halfway.