“There’s no one reality. I think that there are layers upon layers of realities, and that’s what we actually experience.”

“I had a broad palette of every color I liked. For this album I decided to use the same palette but only use the more sombre colors.”

“I’m not trying to capture a composition on tape, but it’s more like injecting a tape with sound.”

“The aim is to be the greatest rock band in the world. Maybe that in itself, that kind of belief, is kind of intimidating.”

“The music’s a reflection of the path, and within the path, there’s different — an infinite — variety of approaches you can take. There’s not really a destination.”

“I think [my movies] are all fraught with a certain amount of ambiguity, which often leaves people unclear about when to laugh, whether to laugh, what kind of laughter is being evoked.”

“If there’s a problem that I’m exploring with my lyrics, I’m always confronting the problem, rather than avoiding it to paint a nicer picture.”

“I just wanted to make an album without any compromise or regard for how it would be performed.”

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong for enjoying something because it’s so terrible, because it breaks all the rules of taste.”

“To stay in the room for a rRope show, you really had to want to be there.”

Chicago, Union Park

Revisiting the first half of an already amazing year of film

“Do we want to be who it turns out that we are, [or] do we want to try to transform and move through to a different place?”

“To me, you get what you put into it. It’s like with any kind of church: If you have faith, then you’ll believe.”