I can't change it now, and besides, I like who those years made me into,

If we win by losing ourselves, by losing what we were fighting for, then we never really win.

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway - it is called medication.

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

I don't know what it feels like not to have a great family support system - I was lucky to have that.

Fleet Foxes will never, ever, under no circumstances, from now until the world chokes on gas fumes, sign to a major label. This includes all subsidiaries or permutations thereunder. Till we die.

I am a pretty recognizable, like, I walk through the airport or something, you are going to spot me right away.