We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

Tape machines are effects boxes as well because each tape machine has its own sound. You can over-load a tape machine or you can bump it a certain way so it compresses or makes a sound, tape saturation.

I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.