When you create a fence, you keep people out, but you also limit your mobility.

It's just as political, what you do in the bedroom is just as political as what you do in public.

I wanted to reexamine the idea of the album for generations of people who are not my age, who love music or learning about music or are finding this band called R.E.M. or have just previously heard "Losing My Religion" and "Everybody Hurts" as their elevator music. I wanted to present an idea of what an album could be in the age of YouTube and the Internet.

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?

Why I love chess and tennis - the volleying aspect, and the fact that your competitors' reactions and motivations and bluffs come into the game itself.

My strength is character. I'm pretty good at building walking-talking humans with brains like beehives.

I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.