It's frustrating that people attribute something to certain songs and that's not what they're about at all.

Nobody starts a band to make friends; you do it because of the music.

There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.

I'm really excited about the remixes. I've always been a fan of electronic music and I'm thinking about that very seriously for the next record as well.

Everyone tries to research your background. I have a real fear of celebrity and exposing my real self.

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Youth is so cynical. There's never anything to believe in as a teen.

Even that word depends on what you mean by pop. I mean, pop music has currency. It could just be about that girl who's in love with you.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

It's when we're inches apart and not speaking or touching each other that I feel that we are miles apart.

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

Trees have as much individuality as human beings. Not even two spruces are alike. There is always some kink or curve or bend of bough to single each one out from its fellows.

Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus.

If worse comes to worst, I say clearly - a soldier must follow military orders.

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.