The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Go ahead and do what you're doing.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of stance from the outside of that world to disagree.

The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this--that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.

I noticed that the snow was gone and the ground looked greener. It’s funny how the good stuff can wipe away the bad stuff so quickly.

Only the dead, can speak about their world.

My music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.

I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

I hate the modern day the kids live in. I don't think it's very cool. Everyone's interconnected.

Whoso desireth to govern well and securely, it behoveth him to have a vigilant eye to the proceedings of great princes, and to consider seriously of their designs.