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

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

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.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.

You should not belittle yourself or see yourself as worse than others

Self acceptance is pure power.

FDA clearance is an important step on the path towards getting genetic information integrated with routine medical care.

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me except that I have a slight stomach pain. Wait till I get my hospital bill! Then I'll really have a pain the stomach!

Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.

Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

I see but one rule: to be clear. If I am not clear, all my world crumbles to nothing.