If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

I was going to tweet every three seconds about every thought that went through my mind, and I did that for a few days. It was really fun, and funny to me.

When you have learned to love and control yourself, then you become the master of yourself.

we all get waves of regret sometimesbut instead of dwelling on what you can’t change, start focusing on what you can.

More likely drinking Coca-Cola... than water will be a symmetry...

What you are will show in what you do.

To me, money is independence. It gives you freedom to do what you really want to do. It allows you to not be dependent on anyone or anything, and so you can be yourself and follow your passion.

I sing all day. And it's good for you. Good for your vocal cords.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

My set comes with a smaller fin in the back, i find this helps me release off the top a lot easier

Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That's way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.

I learned long ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.