I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

Every declarative statement that comes out of an interview with somebody is actually in response to a question. It's like this very real interpersonal dance where one of the people involved is invisible.

That's what I call 'Guiliani Time', my friends. 'We've got a problem. Let's kill it.'

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

It's hard to tell a shallow person that they should care more about the feelings of the awkward and the alienated.

The main thing that we're doing is thinking we can control anything, which is the biggest false assumption we can make. I think we can figure out how to tread a lot more lightly on the environment, and we'll be a lot better off.

A lot of times I'll post things on Facebook, and the immediate response will be like, "Stick to the music!"