I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.

There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.