I'll keep making records until I don't have more ideas for records.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.

We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you cannot equate all Pashtuns with the Taliban.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

What the eyes see, the heart must believe.

I don't take myself too seriously! That makes me happy.

I just think we need more accountability and more transparency.

The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.