That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

It is right to be contented with what we have never with what we are.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

The secret to a long life is knowin' when it's time to go.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

The best thing to break is a contract.