I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.

I'm not going to spend two years of my life on something that I'm not excited about.

You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you. So it does sometimes turn into a situation where you're saying to the person you're working with, "Well, what do you want?" But then there are other times when I work with people and they'll turn to me and say, "How do you want to do this?" And that's actually when I work best.

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.