The Bible tries to make humans not animals the whole time. I think it's a bit of a mistake.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

I once asked a studio guy in Toronto, "How many people don't use auto tune?" and he said, "You and Nelly Furtado are the only two people who've never used it in here." Even though I'm not into Nelly Furtado, it kind of made me respect her. It's cool that she has some integrity.

Rich kids who write songs about food stamps always piss me off. I'm not going to write any songs about that, either.