We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

I think things like YouTube and Twitter are really cool and really good in some ways, but the fact that the news is cutting to a YouTube clip on national TV, I think is really weird.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

If you will reach your dream land as sooner as possible you have to leave everything behind and fix your eyes on one thing

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

He [ Vladimir Putin] would rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

[Michael] Moore doesn't really use his sense of humor that much.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.