You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think it's general British-press hype.

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.

A loving heart is the source of all happiness, all joy and all bliss.

To the mind that could dream and shape our beaconed universe, what is injustice to us may be unfathomable tenderness, and our horror only loveliness misunderstood.

If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones.

Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.