It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.

A lot of people listening to music now don't listen to the songs or lyrics at all. They just go, "Good tones..." and that's it.

The shows are the main way our lives have changed.

When I'm on a stage, I don't feel like this dude who's sitting here drinking Amstel Lights. I'm trying to temporarily become something else that can deliver a feeling.

Twitter has to be about art. It can't be about banal things. Banal things and art are two different worlds.

I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.