There are lots of things I like about playing in a band, the things I cant do by myself you know.

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.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

Trust is a collective mind - the corporate culture. You can’t build and nourish trust without creating a conducive environment of trust.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

Service is no Inheritance.

The only reason why I acted in school was because of the community, like I was in the chorus of every play, I was never really the lead.

People who don't think shouldn't talk.

Love doesn't need to be understood, it needs to be demonstrated

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.

There won't be any more white folks around who think the 1950s were the good old days, because there won't be any more white folks around who actually remember them.