Without art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

We love playing music but were too weird to play music.

I got very lucky that some of the things that I wanted to work did work. Not because I knew what I was doing, just through dumb luck, it just looked beautiful and sounded great and captured some magical mood. And you just have to hope that you get lucky when you do big things like making a movie, or something.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.