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, …

- David Longstreth

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.

- David Longstreth

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

- David Longstreth

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.

- David Longstreth

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

- David Longstreth

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…

- David Longstreth

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…

- David Longstreth

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

- David Longstreth

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…

- David Longstreth