I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through, a great peace greets you there

You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it’s your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

In reading we live hundreds lives, in writing we live thousands of lives.

A major driver of the cost of healthcare in the United States is a compromise that was reached with the American Medical Association in the 1960s when Medicare was first established.

Shakespeare said, nothing is either good nor bad but thinking makes it so

You've got to know much more than the mere technicalities of notes. You've got to know sounds and what goes between the notes.

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

There's not much place for the loyalists - especially the loyalists who left - in standard American history.

If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.