When we went to cover it I thought we would change it to a song of loving and longing instead of the sex machine song Kylie turned it into. I've met Kylie and told her we were covering her song and she was pleased.

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

Anyway, Cat Stevens is never going to make much money out of us.

I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

I stopped caring so much about what people might think if I sung about love and humanity.

Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

We hear so many records these days that are done with click tracks, as opposed to a drummer.

We love it when we make mistakes that are better than something you could think up.

We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.

We made music that wouldn't be in synch.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.

I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch... and then we'd beat them up as well.