I have to brush my teeth before I go on stage otherwise I don't feel smart enough.

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.

I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distract from the real reason why you're together, which is that you just like each other.

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing.. . and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.

There's a reason why people who've had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

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