Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.

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.

Let us recognize that we are all part of each other. We are all human. We are all one.

It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.

A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.

The true runner is a very fortunate person. He has found something in him that is just perfect.

Usually in TV... A TV director could be anything from a main grip to just a glorified cameraman, and sometimes a director can be the person who is hired last. It's very much a producer's medium.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you're doomed right off.

I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!