I'm not excited when bands strip things down. I'm not excited by the White Stripes.

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.

Writing is easy. Saying something that would make a difference is the task.

I seen the look in your eyes...I reached out to touch you but feared I would mark your skin. I do not want just tonight, my love. I want to know that always...always...you will be mine.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.

Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Each nanosecond of history branches off into an infinite amount of parallel universes.

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.

By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.