It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

The past always sort of haunts us and perhaps inspires us in some ways.

Each of us has a private Austen.

I think I'm going to spend some time learning how to be a first-time mom, and then I'll go back to work.

I'm far more relaxed with German. I'm a control freak. I like to know exactly who's saying and doing what.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

So where in the old economy, content was king, in the new economy, context is king.

I like the black and white movies on AMC.