I made a decision at some point to live a nontraditional life. I've become like, the opposite of a consumer. I just want freedom. I don't want stuff. I don't want clutter. I just want to be able to move freely. I want to be good to the people I love. But I don't want stuff. I just want, you know, love and big ideas.

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

I've tried to write songs for other people and it usually requires them singing it and then changing the phrasing. I can put a lot of words in a song, and one of the reasons is, I'm not that good of a singer, so I don't hold a lot of notes.

If we enjoy what we're doing, we shouldn't really need a break.

My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.

You can either go to the gym because you want to lose weight, or you can go to the gym because you like how it makes you feel when you're running.

There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.