It's not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Science's job is to map our ignorance.

A little touch of chaos and danger makes a city sexy.

I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

I've noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I'm not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.