I feel like I'm adapting to society. I went feral a little bit. I found that when I would get back to the city, if there was any second-guessing about stuff, it would happen.

I'm still writing songs but leaving them a lot more open and not trying to control every nuance of it.

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens.

Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.

I'm just online too much. I drink too much. A lot of bad things.

I wasn't being critical of myself in the way I can normally be, and I was letting myself follow through with stuff. It was like a prolonged spontaneity.

Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try.

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff

I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.

The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin—returning it to the sky where it promises to find me again in the form of dew, snow, or rain.

Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.

I like reading, going to the gym, hanging out with my family. That's it.

Not to teach the whole curriculum is to give up on the whole man.

I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.