And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

... a door shuts in my face, but my face is already looking at another door, wondering when that one will close too and how many good things I would have gotten out of it when it does.

Madness is born in the blood. It is my birthright.

In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

I have a Pinterest, and if you look there you'll see the things I really like and adore, have crushes on, and there's a lot of stuff from Riccardo's [Tisci] line on there.

I tried to laugh early on about ego and pride... I do something great and then I do something really dumb and then I laugh. You'll always be that kid.

Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!

I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

If the careers want me, let them find me.

You have to knock on doors. You can't keep your dreams a secret. You have to put them out there on display and people can say whatever they want but keep on pointing your actions towards your dreams.