New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

Believing happiness to be in the eternal thing is called the enlightened vision (samkit).

She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting.

There comes a moment in each of our lives when the control that keeps us sane slips through our fingers. Most of us aim to seize it back. The best way to fight chaos is with chaos.

I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.

Sometimes art is just about getting a reaction, that's really the end-all be-all.

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which we appropriate what we can and what is suitable to us.

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons.

[Rex] Tillerson is there to get these sanctions [against Russia] lifted. I believe it. Just watch him!

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.