You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting around in some living room in Vienna and being l….

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as….

I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes him sound like a really grandiose douche - which, ….

There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to h….

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own will….

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music..

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound..

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again..

I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally..

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking..

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking about random vowel sounds that go with it - and i….

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that business mentality separate from the creative one, whi….

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popul….

I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more ch….

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you h….