I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.

Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister.

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

Without a soundtrack, human interaction is meaningless.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.

A sentence boiled in her, but she could not yet see it clearly.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

The copy price of the future is the copyright.

Elegance is a discipline of life.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.