Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

I hate it when bands change between records. They're thinking before they make music.

Reverb does that thing where you make one sound and it grows to 20 times its original size and fills everything up.

Music is about your feelings.

We almost don't want to play bigger shows than where we are now. It's kind of perfect.

When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.

The shows are the main way our lives have changed.

The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.

Art is what gets communicated at a live show, which is why live shows are so amazing. To communicate in a different way is a mixed message. It devalues everything.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.

A love of the ages.

How different her life would be if Orrin hadn’t contacted her in July. She wouldn’t be embroiled in kidnapping, espionage, and murder.

Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

You've either got or you haven't got style, and if you've got it you stand out a mile.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

I base all my characters on hair.