I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

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.

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?

What might be considered loyalty in onesociety might not necessarily be the same for another.

To feel valued to know even if only once in a while that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.

My soul, be satisfied with flowers, with fruit, with weeds even; but gather them in the one garden you may call your own.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

Individually, I always want to give the most.

Let your love flow out on all living things.