I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.

The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Adversity refined as like gold.

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Pleasure and pain, the good and the bad, are so intermixed that we can not shun the one without depriving ourselves of the other.

I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.

If you think I'm over-the-top, I am.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Music never goes away. It is always available, but we're not always available for music.