If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

Well, I don't like the word 'rock star,' the two words, 'rock star.' Not even 'soft rock star. Not even limestone star. I don't like those words.

I'm not an old-fashioned, booze-and-drugs rock 'n' roller. For me, rock 'n' roll is all about doing whatever you want. It's about defying convention and being who you are. I'd rather go swimming or running or kite flying.

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

I can't believe we've got away with becoming this huge band. And we still haven't done anything I think is that good yet.

He helped John Cusak get his girlfriend back.

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.