I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Go ahead and do what you're doing.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.

Life is wonderful if you know how to live. However, it is now how long you live in life but how impactful is your existence on earth.

The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

I'm gonna pray for him.

Oh, wise young judge.

You will never love art well until you love what she mirrors better.

Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that... I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.