It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen, ' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to laugh before others do. Then you steal the laughter from them, and have it all for yourself.

Start with scout locations first.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.

One of my interests in music has always been what it means, why it affects us the way it does.

Carbon made only wants to be unmade.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.