David Longstreth

You think about, like, [20th-century classical composers] Alban Berg, Schoenberg, and Webern sitting ...

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's eas ...

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our comm ...

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to mu ...

When you make a melody that doesn't come with words from the get-go, sometimes you're just thinking ...

I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's som ...

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set ...

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to th ...

There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying ...

I love that, for Kanye [West], there's no difference between the epic and the personal. That makes h ...

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image ...

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

You have to figure out as a band how a band becomes a business, and then you have to keep that busin ...

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to ...

I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.