Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the George Saunders stuff.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

I know I am awful. But how much more awful I should be without the Faith.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Arsenal means every thing to me. I've been here since I was nine and I love the Club.

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.

What’s looming in the shadows of our ignorance and denial is a critique of civilization itself.

We may be delighted to see Israel putting the Arabs in their place, but we have repeatedly condemned their occupation of Arab territory.

When I started my campaign for Congress, I was one who people said, 'Tulsi, you have a bright future, but there's no way you can win.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.