In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

Only when we feel the story in each of its moments or places are we able to tell it properly.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.

I can't imagine anything more important than air, water, soil, energy and biodiversity. These are the things that keep us alive.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

I've long held the belief that as a leader, I can't ask of you something that I can't do myself, and I can't impose on you values that I don't live out.

Mr. Bear, you know in the eyes of the Lord, we're both beasts.

When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.

A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.