"The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization."

“I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. But everybody in Grizzly Bear is full of ideas. So it's kind of boring to come to the band with a complete song and be like: "Here's what I want you to do." With this record, we wanted to make everything feel like everyone - music that we could never do on our own. That's a real gift, and it's one of the best things about being in a band like this.”

Source : "Grizzly Bear". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. October 3, 2012.

“My ambition didn't grow out of nowhere. It was planted in me by a community that nurtured me.”

“It's around midnight. After I left Dad, my choice was to either become very drunk or write this. I chose to write this. It felt kind of now-or-never for me.”

“British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.”

“As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the problem of madness arose and became of great social significance. In the next chapter I shall examine the creation of social deviants, and shall show that as formerly priests had manufactured heretics, so physicians, as the new guardians of social conduct and morality, began to manufacture madmen.”

“The ambitious deceive themselves in proposing an end to their ambition; that end, when attained, becomes a means.”

“I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.”

“Everybody's talking trash these days, so why not keep quiet?”