You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.

On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.

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.

I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.

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

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.