I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.

I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.

When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.

My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you.

To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering.

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

The constitution of a country should not violate the constitutions of its citizens.