«It started off as this little joke and ended very grandiose ? kind of like the theme from 'The Muppet Show,' ? kind of how that was humorous but it was supposed to be very grand at the same time, very operatic, ... When everyone came back, Billie heard it and he was like, 'Oh, my God. That sounds so fun. I want to do one.' So he did one. He connected it to mine. ... We just kept playing musical hot potato.»

«It showed us he was emotionally invested in the record.»

«Now are any of these vegetables magic? I mean if I rub that bean on my foot will I run faster?»

«I have a Rolex collection and a diamond collection. I'd like to find the biggest goddamn diamond I could find, eat it and pick it out of my shit the next day.»

«At the end of the day, we speak for ourselves, but I think a lot of people on this planet and especially in the United States can relate to us, ... We live in the United States too and we watch the news and we have the same questions and the same fears and angers and everything else that everyone else has. The difference is, I guess, we have each other to talk about it with and kind of sort our opinions out on paper. And we also have a creative forum in which to voice our opinions and our frustrations and happiness and everything. Not everybody has that forum.»

«It's this total epic, theatrical number, so to hear it on the radio, it feels like you're doing something that's groundbreaking.»

«When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,»

«It was pretty intense. I don't suggest it any time soon.»

«For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could just never, we were nominated, like, 14 times or something before we ever got one.»

«It's definitely going to shift gears a lot,»