It's not really a conscious decision to do a quiet album or a noisier album. It's just something that happens, I guess.

If you want to do a movie about aliens coming down to Earth nowadays, you need to do it with a smile.

I probably watch movies more than I actually listen to music, I think.

I don't really watch too many remakes. I saw Scorsese's version of Cape Fear, which was good. That was a good remake.

I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself.

I like to get everything done during the early morning hours and the early part of the day.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

I very rarely sit down with a guitar and try to write a song. I usually think about it a lot and then I'll try to re-create what was in my head at the time.

I don't work at night. I'm not very good about working at night. I get tired during the day and I usually like to save my nights to try things out recording.

I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.

What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.

Though the fire and water tried to overtake me, I have come out to a place of great abundance and God has given me hope again.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

The Internet has fashioned a new and complicated environment for an age-old dilemma that pits the demands of security against the desire for freedom.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

I've always been a writer, actually. Not many people assume that, but I kinda keep quiet about anything that I do until I'm ready to show it. It keeps me humble and also makes me work towards a goal.