I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

When I was living in Boston I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it.

I think filmmakers all secretly wanna be musicians and all musicians secretly wanna be filmmakers.

Years ago, in order to stay sane, I had to really make an effort not to think about how people view us. There's just so much noise, positive and negative, and not much good comes out of thinking about it.

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.

A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.