When a band means a lot to you, you build the fantasy more than the reality. Always.

We're probably a couple of freaks who've created their own little universe, are living in our own little world and that's the only place where we can survive.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

A good voice isn't so important. It's more important to sound really unique.

I'm not sure if you can blame everything on the American way of life, but the United States are big. So, if you have a lot of people there, the percentage of stupid people is bound to be higher.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.

Despite my own doubts of being marketable or crushworthy, my goal was to write a record of peppy pop songs, hopefully without annoying anybody.

We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.

The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.

False humility is quite like the worst of both worlds: both that of Meekness and that of Conceit.

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

When I got my success I became decadent for a while. This was 2003 to 2008. I fell for tiramisu really hard. I've become more moderate since, because African-Americans are prone to diabetes.

I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

We waste the power in impatience which, if, otherwise employed, might remedy the evil.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.