There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon them, which all should obey.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

Noah, if we were to get married, you couldn't date anymore.

The creepy thing about battle is you always feel alone.

I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.

We are a very crafty family.