The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Die with memories, not dreams.

An impatient person plays differently than a more patient person.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

My dad was so much fun growing up.

I see the work the pope has to do. It is a huge responsibility. Nobody campaigns for it.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't acting, so I can't imagine what I would do if I stopped now.

The first thing you do when you get out to center field is put up your finger and check the wind chill factor.

You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.

Clear statement is argument.