Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes.

'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video.

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill.

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.