I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

Sons of Anarchy has the perfect combination of character and action.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Speech is always bolder than action.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.

The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

Scientific inquiry shouldn't stop just because a reasonable explanation has apparently been found.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.