The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

A butterfly is a caterpillar who never gave up on his dream to fly.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Where we can compete on merit, we do very well.

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Every dressing room should have a few proper bottles of bubbly.