We're a live band. Some bands write their songs in the studio - we don't do that. We're playing songs on this tour that were written three days before the tour. And it feels good to try these songs.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

Ten people who are into our music is better than three hundred people who are just standing there.

Tour is disgusting, actually, I have no idea how people do it. Your brain would go to rot, unless you really, really worked hard at making sure it didn't.

Live is best. You have movement, and I think we should do as much as we can to put that sense of movement in the recorded music.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

These are things that I continue to enjoy speaking about. The woods. Boats. Greeks. I think the real heart of it, is really being in love with these Dutch paintings over the last several years.

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.

Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish.

We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make.