Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Anything that has to travel all the way down from your cerebellum to your fingertips, there's a lot of things that can happen on the journey. Sometimes I'll listen to records, my own stuff, and I think god, the original idea for this was so much better than the mutation that we arrived at.

When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.