We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?

I feel like I've given up a lot of my fantasies. I just want to do things differently, and to a lot of people that's annoying. I like weird stuff. I always hoped if we had a big success it would be on our own terms.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.