My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.

I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.

It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.

We did have three go to the YMCA.

In terms of what we share from our lives, I tend to share everything. My instinct would be to share everything.

Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.

No matter how long you live, die young.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?