The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph - it's eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can't do that.

Even when other people don’t expect a lot out of you,you have to take the initiative.

The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.

You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.