People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

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.

You can change a life with a simple touch of kindness.

Suppose it’s your last day on earth. Have you done what all you wanted to do, you always dreamt of? If answer is NO, your time starts now.

It’s not stress that kills us, it’s our reaction to it.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

I know I'm a good person. I know I can play basketball.

Religions are different roads converging to the same point.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.