I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

What happens to those who live dangerously by being true to who they are?

I know. You can be fine, and then, out of nowhere, a memory blindsides you.

We're all simultaneously separated and connected by our devices, staring into our little screens, and also hungry for experience and community.

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Why do I have to pay a reconnect fee when you all made the mistake?

If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.

If thou wilt fly from God, the devil will lend thee both spurs and a horse.