I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.

It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in