I also don't like to make really big records, because I feel then that the songs don't get enough space to be themselves, so I would never want to make a record that's like seventeen songs.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

No one knows while experiencing their darkest hour that some day they may use that very experience to illuminate the ways for others. Nothing is ever wasted.

...some of the miracles do locally what God has already done universally: others do locally what He has not yet done, but will do.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

When I run barefoot, I put my shoes on my hands. Running around with shoe-hands looks a little weird.

Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.

Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.

Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?

My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

Who knows what hellish future lies ahead? ... Actually, I do. I've seen the rehearsals.