Nick Zinner Quotations

This time, we were a little more insecure. We knew we didn't want the same sound or musical paradigm. And we all had intense bouts of self-pressure and self-doubt.

We went into the studio with absolutely nothing. Sometimes we were on the same page, but other times it was more complicated, basically because we didn't know what we were after. All we knew was we wanted it to be different from the first one.

Fever' is basically a live record. We knew exactly what it should sound like before we went into the recording. So we could have this bratty confidence.

It's interesting that people are prepared to believe such odd things about us. Either we haven't really defined ourselves yet, or our fans are a little crazy.

The fact that so many people whose livelihood depends on being able to play, it's just crazy.

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

It definitely helps if I can wear a jacket, because I can have a camera in my pocket. When we're on tour or if I go travel somewhere by myself, that's when I take the most photos.

I'm a big fan of Henri Cartier-Bresson, the French photographer who had that whole "decisive moment" approach to taking pictures, of having multiple elements line up within the frame.

I'm a huge Nirvana fan and I like seeing things that at first seem out of context, but actually they're one of the biggest bands in the world. I like to see pop culture, like punk or alternative culture, clash with some other type of culture.

My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things.