In all honesty, we never tried to get the number-one song anywhere anyway.

We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.

I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.

Life is never just in your own hands ...

Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

National security advisors, like White House Chiefs of Staff, their job generally if they're - if they're competent and qualified and effective is to be honest brokers in the White House.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

I would love to do something for TV... I wanna do 'Kavalier & Clay' on HBO as an eight-parter. It'll be so much better as a series, honestly.