Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

What frustrated us about the song [Robots] was not that it existed - we owe a lot to that song and have had a ton of fun playing it. The problem was that it was a "given".It was like everyone was waiting for it to happen, and then it better be as crazy as the time they saw it before. Started to feel like dancing monkeys.

I had a rule that I would never force the muse in my younger days. I would follow the feeling. I would just put the pen down and walk away, and wait for it to come back. But these days, I have a kid, I tour a lot, and I'm always short on time.

With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.