I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.
I screw up on the delay settings, so pretty much everything is manually done by me - I don't have those presets like the Edge has.
I have an amp that doesn't have a master volume. It sounds awesome, but we just can't get an appropriate decibel level out of it.
People would be surprised at how much of an electronic dude I am, and I like new wave, post-punk and proto-punk stuff.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
I really have to be in a specific headspace to even begin to illuminate an idea that would create another Bon Iver record, and I'm just not there.
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
I like watching 'The X Factor,' but I would never go on it - I think it's too much of a controlled thing.
All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see.
I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magic, but they do have something.
I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.
Earthlings are confused, insecure. And some Earthlings have no heritage: that's what leads them to kill each other and rob 7-11 stores.
I'm going to make people happy. I'm going to make them forget about their cancer. I'm going to make them forget about their diabetes.
People who have witnessed all the years of me playing, they bring their kids and say, 'I used to see this guy when I was fourteen!'
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.
As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.
There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.
A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.
I think cubism has not fully been developed. It is treated like a style, pigeonholed and that's it.
