Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.

All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

When someone close to you dies, the line is shifted really drastically about what is meaningful and what isn't.

It's interesting to think about the different forms one place can take.

Whenever I get a tweet that's trying to promote a thing someone cares about, I'm like, "how annoying!"

I've been thinking a lot about Anacortes and what it's like to be here, though I'm not trying to get people to move here - I would hate that.

For some reason focusing on destruction and mortality is more poetically exciting to me than hope and love.

I like the idea of politically charged music a lot, but it usually seems to be preaching to the choir and ineffective.

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.

I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

This band has never had an argument. It's just amazing.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

Chicken is good and never stop eating you will look like me and you will have hair like me and sing like me and be 500 pounds!!!!

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.

I've had just about everything punched. I've had things grabbed that just shouldn't be grapped.

No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.