I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.

I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

If you don't think it.You'll never do it!

I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.

An institution rooted in slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.

You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

Work divided is in that manner shortened.

I ignore the jealous, I ignore the malicious, I ignore the ignorant and I ignore the paranoid.

I for one don't need a supreme "sacred" arbiter in order to be a moral being.

One of the keys to focus, and why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.

Orange? Like Effie's hair?" I say. "A bit more muted," he says. "More like sunset.