We didn't have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you're young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.

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.

People don’t believe what is true but believes what they hear regularly.

When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

Once you have children it's love without bounds. You would die for them in an instant, without question. How can you better that?

We have 20 years [until 2026] to reduce carbon emissions or climate change will become irreversible.

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

The problem is that taxes aren’t used efficiently.

Yesterday should be the teacher of today.

My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library.