Being in Portland is cool. I have some good friends here and the general feeling might be a little more welcoming.

I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

I'm looking forward to doing things more intuitively in the future, just going with whatever happens and not immediately categorizing it as potentially good or bad or original or whatever.

The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.

I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

I don't know that we're really going to need a label for the things we're thinking about doing next.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

The Bible says that to have a friend we must show ourselves friendly. To that, I say, “Amen.

I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.

Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.

I wonder how many college tuitions could be paid off with the amount of money spent by Minions on advertisement.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter.

National antipathy is the basest, because the most illiberal and illiterate of all prejudices.

Prepare yourself so that you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.

In school [I wanted] to be an English teacher.

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.