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

- Andrew Vanwyngarden

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

- Andrew Vanwyngarden