It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

The tongues of hell are dull.

Embrace the glorious mess that you are

Plans must be simple and flexible....They must be made by the people who execute them.

Since you won't give me your names I'll call you Thing One and Thing Two.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.

I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.