I probably couldn't have the same experience listening to that song because I'm self-conscious about some of my singing parts.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

i believed that imagination is stronger than knowledge, sometimes that dreams are more powerful than fact, stronger dreams may seized peoples heart with full of amore/love

In order to choose the right path, we do not have to figure out the wrong one... we just need to follow the light.

I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being born, Harry.

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

It is one's duty to make the most of the best that is in him.