I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

I think there's a weird self-affirmation thing that happens in popular music in general. It seems like every song I hear on the radio is like, "Listen to me roar!" or "This is my fight song!"

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

I want to be the surgeon who cuts you open Who fixes all of life's mistakes I want to be the house that you were raised in The only place where you feel safe. I wanna be a shower in the morning That wakes you up and makes you clean I know I'm just the weather against your window As you sleep through a winter's dream

On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.