I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

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.

From a security perspective, if you're connected, you're screwed.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

For knowledge is not given as gift...but through study...The free mind, not afraid of labor, presses on to attain the good.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Our players are mad, but it's good mad.

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low.

Boredom is what happens to people who have no control over their minds.

Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.