Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

I'm looking forward to doing things more intuitively in the future, just going with whatever happens and not immediately categorizing it as potentially good or bad or original or whatever.

The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.

I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

I don't know that we're really going to need a label for the things we're thinking about doing next.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

In order to know your ministry, you need to start serving and be under the leadership of someone, who already knows his ministry

Look for magic in daily routine.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Bring me a horse and I am yours forever

Overnight business could go down enough to hurt; yet as a rule it slowly recovered-sometimes it seemed to take forever-went up, not high enough to be really up, only not down.

Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!" Why was I not surprised? "Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

I'm never surprised by the insensitivity of 'The New York Times' editorial board.

A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.