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

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

The complete self-absorption, and childish indulgence and disregard, and having to feel as though everything you're doing is so people can live vicariously through you, so you have to pursue more and more unpleasant pastimes in order to satisfy the armchair people. That's a kind of scary existence.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

For as long as I can remember, I have written songs because I wanted to, because I was experiencing something that couldn't be described except through a sound.

I think a sexual energy is a positive energy.

The things that I've seen where people are trying to change the definition of what a band has to be, those are the things that end up being inspiring.