There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

I try not to do anything by formula.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Im trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them "outside" of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.