If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

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'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.