A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Everything means nothing to me

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

a kind of emptiness existed in the center of my bagel

To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

Every good leader is part manager and every good manager is part leader.

I've never been a good estimator of how long things are going to take.

Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.