For the most part I stand by all of records. I just always like the one I've done most recently the best and I think that's the whole point.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)

I live my life as defined by God.

She trusted him. Her heart knew him.And her body wanted him.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it and gnaw it still.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

One thing I learned about people is that they love to give their opinions about things.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

I was supposed to be on the Tonight Show but I broke my shoulder instead.

Well, I was such a huge fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino and of 'Gilmore Girls.'