There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture..

There's something about live recordings now that's too hi-fi..

I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled ar….

When I stopped touring, it was like trying to stop a bullet train or a giant lead ball falling from a 100 stories up - it's momentum and it doesn't j….

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it..

So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a nu….

The group-effort sound in recording of Sea Lion is like, you really hear all the people in the room and hear them interlocking. Theres a real freight….

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated ….

Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go,….

It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay..

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks..

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening..

I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and….

If you calculate every single thing you could possibly need in your life, you would need no more than 200 people to keep all that afloat: a doctor, f….

I haven't been living anywhere because I've been on tour for the past two years..

I love storms and how the whole house shakes. When I was a kid, there would be lots of thunder and lightning storms, and they would knock the electri….

You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep..

There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together..

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant. It makes you feel so minute. The only thing as big as that are yo….

I like being swept up in weather and observing it as something beautiful and giant..

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots..