But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

I am not an autobiographical writer. I'll take little elements here and there from things that I've actually experienced-counting eyelashes on a sleeping beauty, for example.

There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.