"For a while me and Beno wanted to see if we could get immensely popular and then completely destroy our popularity and go back to college student level, but I don’t think that’s possible. Once we got all the money, we’d go get blow jobs and ride up to concerts on horses. [both laugh] And we wouldn’t want to leave that life behind. And once we finished, you know, building the zoo in Russia. And put in a lot of animals…in cages…that’s just fucking wrong. [laughs]"

"MGMT stands for ‘Make Great Music Today’. We met through an internet dating service. And what does our music sounds like? [looks at Ben] Our music sounds like flowers."

"I think we get blamed for people wearing headbands. It’s probably somewhat my fault, and I’m sorry."