I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere..

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all..

I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff..

I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way.….

The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mo….

Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie..

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is..

I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort ….

I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthough….

I was staying at my friend's house and he told me about the drug Prednisone. It took me 14 years to discover it. And there are a lot of times that wo….

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool..

I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every momen….

My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has….

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again.".

When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting to….

The funny thing is that the studio that we recorded in was the same studio that Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole used to warm up their….

You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't wa….

I felt like I could get away with calling it Black Hours. That could easily be the most depressing record ever written, but because there is this sen….

I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard..

When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a….

I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. Wit….