The process of touring is always so weird to me. Once you've made the album, that's over, you move along.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

Love is the glue that holds the world together.

Then marriage may be said to be past in all quietnesse, when the wife is blind, and the husband deafe.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.