Usually I'm only using my instruments when I'm recording or playing a gig.

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

It's easy to not work on my album. I go out to the cinema, catch up with friends, eat, watch "Curb Your Enthusiasm" - that sort of thing.

Making music is a total hassle, really.

Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.

I hope nobody I wrote about becomes too upset.

Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.

What bugs me are parodies - they're never as special as the original thing.

The internet becomes too arch. The clip is uploaded and reuploaded endlessly with banner headlines and crappy 3-D graphics. Stuff rots in this supposedly clinical space.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.

The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when youre on your own.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

When I was a kid, hip-hop had that effect on me, it was escape and it showed me a different way of life.

The extreme center is the political expression of the neoliberal state.