If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended

Human person as a unit harmonic and dynamic individual integrates in the living environment using for this purpose all available resources.

I'm from Oregon. This is a town of no. I say no to a lot of things, and I get told no for a lot of things. Sometimes there's a yes, and you hope you see something in it.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

It is true that money cannot buy happiness but it does make it possible for you to enjoy the best that the world has to offer.

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!

Death is just infinity closing in.

I'm tired of being tired of being tired of being.