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

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

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

I’ve never been much into picking things apart.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everything else outside me seems far, far away.

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

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

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

The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.

I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.

It’s hard listening to myself.

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.

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