Life is miraculous, even when it's disastrous, it's still incredible, I'm fascinated with everything, life is fascinating, I'm fascinated by trees and dogs, but no one wants to hear me talk about it.

I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.

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

The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

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.

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