Growing up in public is a test, and not many people know how to do it.

If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.

I had a feeling about what I wanted to say, and I wasn't really qualified to discuss real things out of America because I didn't grow up there.

I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

Joining Modest Mouse was just consistent with what I used to do as a teenager: I followed where I thought I would make some interesting music.

I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

If Jesus was a bartender, He would still only be half as cool as Carlos.

Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.

When people are not aiming for anything in particular or when they cannot monitor their performance, there is little basis for translating perceived efficacy into appropriate magnitudes of effort

Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit ... and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America.

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

Toronto is home; nothing beats home.

I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker.