Adam is one of my favourite writers, period. He has such a unique voice and he's somebody who I admire so much for putting the effort into inventing his own language and furthering it.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

My problem is I'm a man of no convictions - at least, I think I am.

One problem with how we think about the Bible is that people tend to jam it into narrower categories, when in fact it is many things all at once.

The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

I had uterine cancer, which is the most under-funded and under-researched of all the female cancers.

Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?

I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it.

What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure?

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

Your happiness is your gift to the world.

In my youth it was said that what was too silly to be said may be sung. In modern economics it may be put into mathematics.