I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.