I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

When you listen to most of the records that really had an impact on you, they always seem to be from a different era.

My highest aspirations as a songwriter are that people would sing my songs or know songs I've written sometime in as far into the future as I feel comfortable seeing.

I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.