I think listening to a lot of Lou Reed when I was a teenager is what encouraged me to just sing however felt good to me.

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.

I have witnessed how the power of listening, storytelling and embracing gray areas breaks through the rigid 'us vs. them.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

My earliest memories are doing commercials and TV.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Trees have judicial standing, and probably grass too.