I think that's all I want in life, just like peace and be able to make music and like have happiness when it's time off. Spend time with people and family, whatever.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

If a book is worth reading, it will most probably be worth reading twice.

I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

From a distance it is something and nearby it is nothing.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring.

Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light.

My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.