Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

We'll probably be working on another album in the next few months here.

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.

It's hard listening to myself.

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

You know, when I hear music, I just hear the whole thing.

Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.

I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.

I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.

Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.

Jack the only trick I ever played on you was never tricking you at all.

It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.

It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.

The only things that are a little bit newer are the CD burners, but we hid them under the table, so basically we had the feeling we were somewhere completely different, in another time.

I've never been much into picking things apart.

Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear the recordings.

There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.

The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.

I wouldn't want to be in a Lisa episode. They're kind of boring. Maybe a Homer one would be better.

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.

Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.

I think that art is supposed to be ahead of the times.

Dont feel alone because there is always someone out there who loves you more than you can imagine.

Sometimes we have to go through the darkness alone, before we can see the light.

I'm personally attracted to great writing - that's what turns me on the most.

On average, African-American women are 4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications. Latina women are at 2 times greater risk.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

Getting even is one reason for writing.

I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that comfortable excuses to leave things be even when they are unjust and unworthy.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

Writers are always anxious always on the run from the telephone from responsibilities from the distractions of the world.

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK with it.

I think anxiety is dangerous, but it makes you think it's your friend.

I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

Every book in the 'Dreams' cycle dramatizes a particular epoch in the ongoing cultural collision between North America's native peoples and its European colonizers.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.