Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

We rely more on enthusiasm than actual skill. Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically and people will like it more.

I have my moments - usually twice every album - when I basically lose it.

If your wife went out with Brad Pitt, you'd want to prove yourself, you know what I mean?

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.

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.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.