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….

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….

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

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..

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….

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

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

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, ….

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 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….

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….

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….

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….

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..