I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.

But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.

I went through a period where I was really tired of seeing and reading about myself.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever.

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

My iPod that was programmed by Peter Buck. It has 7,000 songs hand-picked for me by him.

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon.

We made part of the record in Miami, and I would go down to the beach, and not 20 feet from the water I see a fish that is at least seven feet long swimming close to the shore. I did not go back in the ocean the entire month.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical.

When we first started, we were a band from Athens and that was so off the map.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

We're absolutely American and distinctly so, I think. That's part of what people respond to outside of this country, part of the reason that we're such a huge band outside of the U.S., where we're not so popular now as we were 10 or 12 years ago.

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

Sometimes Im confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isnt obvious

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am and I know what I am.

Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

Sentences are not as such either true or false.

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door?

We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.

To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.

Besides Spiderman and Batman, 'The Flash' has, hands down, the best villains. You could do a TV show about The Rogues, and there's enough depth and interest and oddly honor amongst those characters that I think people will watch that show.

Cooking with your kids and engaging them in hands-on activities are two ways to begin to educate children about the healthy eating, and kick start the important task to help change how the younger generation looks at food and nutrition.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.