It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

You have to have a very holler-y sensibility. So they [the audience] know there's something worth listening to.

All the songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot are the encapsulation of heterosexual love. I have different records for gay sex.

I mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice.