It's hard to represent chaos, or like an absence of something. It's much easier to represent the presence of something or a situation.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Everything means nothing to me

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

Walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone

Switch over to the right channel in your life --- positive attitude, right kind of food, right people and positive conversations.

Don’t serve time. Make time serve you.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

Try not to worry what your parents think - try to help them see that you do live by the values that they taught you.

I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, thats the reason I live here.

My interest in philosophy began as early as eight years old - I started thinking about those kinds of heavy questions about life and humanity.