I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

We're all human and life is complicated.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

I’m a blank canvas that I can paint however I desire. For the first time ever, I get to be the character in my own fantasy land.

I look into his sorrowless eyes and a door in my heart blows open. And when we kiss, i see that on the other side of that door is sky.

It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

You can only do good if you feel good.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not just as inadequate, albeit differently, as are images?

We see ourselves as yesterday and today. Heavenly Father sees us as forever.

Once the Government Accountability Office did a review of food safety systems in other countries and found many things about those food safety systems that were better than ours [American].

How deep the Father's love for us, How vast beyond all measure That He should give His only Son To make a wretch His treasure.