I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Everything means nothing to me

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

Success without a successor is a failure

Change is fundamentally in the hands of People Cause there is no Greater Alternative to People's Awakening

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

America picks up 73 percent of the cost of NATO. We're paying to protect them. Wouldn't it be nice if people would pay, and we could do things properly? That's got to change.

Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.