“Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It’s almost about the marriage of the band.”

There’s political content in almost every song we’ve ever written on some level. It colors everything.

Everybody knows we’re big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It’s impossible for us to separate the songs we’re writing from what’s going on in the world.

We’ve always been trying to climb this ladder that leans so hard on our own idea of what our big songs are. We realized recently that we’re not a band with big songs.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

I read Gloria Swanson’s autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I shall never write an autobiography, I’m much too jealous of my privacy for that.

My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.