I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.

I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.

I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

I'm actually introverted and shy.

I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.