I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

I'm looking forward to doing things more intuitively in the future, just going with whatever happens and not immediately categorizing it as potentially good or bad or original or whatever.

The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.

I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

I don't know that we're really going to need a label for the things we're thinking about doing next.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

Even in war there should be lines you didn't cross.

We have to be alone, to know that we are everything!

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.

This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

You don't value families if you force them to take up a collection to buy body armor for a son or daughter in the service.

From the age of three, I played every day-morning, afternoon and night.

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.

I've been singing Shakira songs in front of my bathroom mirror into my hairbrush forever. It's like a daily routine.