Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

I mean that's really depressing man. Of course, the kids are freaking out. They watch cartoons and sit in front of the television and their parents are just probably yuppies who focus their entire lives around the child. The child has no sense of context, no sense of what world they are inhabiting-just like this Disnified bag of Cheerios reality. Don't give them a @#$%& pill! God! Take them out on a canoe already! You know what I mean?

You feel like you're trying to show off your cool by mentioning the five bands that you know are great and the five books that will reflect well on you. I can't do it. I should take the time to but I don't want to take the time to do that.

The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.

I think more like Charlie Chaplin than like Jennifer Anniston.