It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning

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.

I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.

No.’ Dorren shifted onto his knees, leaning towards her. ‘This is just the beginning, you’ll see. You are his weakness and you will ruin everything.

10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.

Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.

If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.

I'm the same age as my tongue and a little bit older than my teeth.

There are lots of people who cannot think seriously without injuring their minds.

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.