I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close my eyes and the connotations or the image I get in my head, combine with the sound of them - sometimes phonetics. I'm just stringing those together.

So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

I guess the majority of people who want to ban certain musicians are the ones who are so proud of everything America stands for.

Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.

I don't want to be in Mötley Crüe or something.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

Traditionally, when we lived here [in Portland], we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.