I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I wanted to touch on the piece where often politicians use "god" to excuse their actions.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Really, everything for me comes from "Manifestra." It was an incredible gift of a song; it really describes an important moment in my life.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.

So many policy decisions that effect musicians are being made without any input from musicians at all.

I am really pleased to hear each of my songs described as a total surprise. This is what I want!

I didn't realize at the time that if I wrote about something, I was going to have to talk about something. A lot. Ad nauseum.

I learned how to have a little bit of distance when I explained songs and a little bit of distance when I wrote them. I think this is more interesting any way in art.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

Your journey into the future can only begin when you are able to let go of the past.

All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.

I love Tom Wilkinson and Tommy Lee Jones as well as Jessica Chastain. But the person I look up to most, not because I identify with her roles but because of who she is as a person, is Sissy Spacek.

Whether or not you have good consumer protection has a big effect on safety and soundness of the banking community, especially smaller banks.

When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall-that of our consciousness-between the world and ourselves.