It's not my fault that people are perverts.

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

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

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.

I don't really write journals and stuff and then adapt them to music, it's completely within the form of the song. My great obsession and basically the bane of my existence is caring probably too much about every word, but it's too late to change my career path.

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.