I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Everything alive must die. Every building built to the sky will fall. Don't try to tell me my everlasting love is a lie.

I don't like being in public with headphones on. I don't know how people can do it. It seems like you're so cut off from your environment. I feel like I'd get hit by a car.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I still love poetic imagery. I love the idea of using surrealist speak to generate lyrical content and I love the way English can be exciting in and of itself.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

Anybody who'd expend energy preventing people from hearing music seems not to understand the basic principal of making music in the first place. It's so antithetical to being a musician.

Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.

I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

A non-religious person when awaken would make others sleep. Therefore his sleeping is good. A religious person when awaken will awaken others. Therefore his awakening is good.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

It does not matter how the facts occur in life. It matters how they are told.

Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.