I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

I love him (Muse) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much . . . unless you're family.

This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.