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

"It's hard listening to myself."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."