It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

A writer seizes every opportunity to wonder.

The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance

They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.

Before VCRs, people used to decorate the tops of their TVs with family photos.

So far away, but so beautiful. So powerful. I can always feel it tugging at me.

If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.