There was this large group of people that we were talking about on the first album - "The Youth" - but we didn't really know what to tell them. We st…

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But then they have to listen to it again.

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

We're really into combining lots of different styles into one song: that's normal for us. It might seem arbitrary but we listen to a lot of music tha…

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like…

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

I don't think it is too good especially with music to worry about authenticity, it can get in the way of doing something which comes naturally from y…

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

I have a bad habit of picking up books about drugs, but that's better than having a drug habit, I think.

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

- Andrew Vanwyngarden