So if somebody writes a song that appears to have some meaning then everybody thinks that it's a really heavy song.

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 never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

He who has love in his heart has the universe in his hands.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

I am pro-life, I believe in exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. That's my position, take it or leave it.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

CBS is the largest out-of-home advertising company in the U.S.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

I've never yet met a person who didn't want to be appreciated.

Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.