In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.

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

To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.