I don't want to take photographs that I won't recognize as myself, and myself isn't necessarily just blankly staring at the lens..

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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'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..

You can get anywhere on earth by falling asleep..

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..

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..

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

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….

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….

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,….

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

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

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

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

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….

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….