"A little bit of both. 'Decembrist' is the accepted English translation of the Russian 'Dekabristy.' We appropriated i…"

"Well, I think it is accidental. It’s just something I started doing naturally and it had a lot to do with reading. I …"

"Well, I think you just have to be prepared to be weirder and weirder. I follow the example of Robyn Hitchcock who, I …"

"My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at…"

"Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters, Drag him to a hole until he wakes up naked …"

"[The Decemberists] generally manage to encompass the Stones, XTC, Morrissey and me without sounding like any of them.…"

"I don't really care if you cry On the real you should've never lied Should've saw the way she looked me in my eyes Sh…"

"I said girl why you keep callin' I said girl why you keep callin' (yeah) She said I need new whip (yeah) 'Cause I kno…"

"Writing is the love of my life, so I'm grateful that I had an example of someone who also loves it entirely in really…"

"Songwriting has been my outlet since I started writing at eight years old. It was a thing that I did when I had big f…"