Static in my head, the reflected sound of everything, tried to go to where it led, but it didn't lead to anything.

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.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

People are like bottles of wine. The way the bottle looks shouldn’t be important at all. It’s what’s on the inside that really matters.

Be a Right Person in your Life.. Life shows a Right Person to YOU...

View other authors as your allies rather than your competition

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

In terms of the Patriot Act, and all the other things he has pledged he would do, such as transparency in government,[Barack] Obama has reneged on his promises.

I helped Messi and I know he will do the same with Neymar.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.