I just wanted to move out of Portland to do something.

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.

We really can’t afford to live our lives walking in some sort of introspective darkness as if the darkness is the only thing that we can walk in.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

The whole dating ritual was different when I was a kid. Girls got pinned, not nailed.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

No matter how much you've worked so hard to be as successful as you are, there will always be those ignorant haters who don't understand.

You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

Monogamy is the true path to happiness.