Moments of unexpected sweetness happen when romance enters, which always happens in songs - if just for a split second.

I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.

I can't fool myself into thinking that musically I don't need other people, whether it's as a foil or just to come in and make real the ideas that are kind of vague and wispy in my head.

I'm not really sure that I have the same definition of things as other people. Like, when people talk about being "engaged" with the audience, I'm not exactly sure what they mean.

I don't banter with the audience, cause I don't have anything to say to them, and I'm not feeling any sense of ease or camaraderie when I'm on stage.

I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

Kaputt was just a record that did really well for us, and therefore our record label and our booking agent said that we should go out and take our message to the world.

The more I abandon ideas of myself as a musician, the better a singer I become.

Once you feel like you can safely quit a melody, you are free to explore more important things.

I've never had any kind of work ethic. I've never sat down with the intention of writing a song.

I'm just kind of lazy and messed up and self-managed - self-mismanaged.

The only reason I'm friends with any of you is because I outgrew the von Trapps, one annoying Austrian at a time.

Abolishing hierarchies thus means that people would not have set roles or tasks, but rather that these are in line with their skills and the necessary performance at a given time

Death, one way or another, would breathe life into a new order of balance today.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.

I think being a frontman is the greatest job and I get to do this every day.

Music has no borders, no race or color, no limits of country, no ethnicity. Music makes the people come together. Dance it,Dance all.

Without God there would be no freedom to believe what you want.

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.