I made a deal with myself that whenever I smoke weed, I have to be doing something productive: writing, recording, cutting a podcast, editing, etc.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude, but they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself.

More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Keep your focus on what YOU want to do - not what anyone else wants or is doing. You lose time watching others succeed.

In this life, if you don't celebrate yourself, nobody will.

With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

Learn to put your troubles in your pocket, then leave them there when you do your laundry.

I can't expect people to decide that they will change with me, so I can see why I'm on the old side.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

Radio makes it appear like you can get some sounds in a laptop and be the next dude. Those careers don't really last.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.