In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I never talk about my wife: we're both in public professions but we try to keep our private life private.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

All the children of America, up to age seven or eight or nine or ten - they're really great artists. So here we've got this amazing work that very few people pay any attention to, and it's not valued by the culture.

When you're on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.