We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'.

Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything takes longer than you think it will. Occasionally things happen fast.

It's hard to say how time factors into your work, because sometimes things will come to you very quickly, but it will take years for the ideas to be gestating in your mind.

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18.

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

Never fails. Every new book I write seems impossible, writes like I'm typing from dictation, edits like I didn't write it, and finishes like I couldn't possibly have written it.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.

I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the front runner.

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

I think I was chosen by basketball, although I never really physically got drafted to any team that I played for.

In terms of broadcasting, you have to make decisions about where you want to spend your time.

I have never, for better or worse, thought about a 'career path' or anything like that.

The entire world would feel the vibration if America returned to its heart.

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.