What I'm confessing is that I've grown to a point where I feel like I should have more answers, and I don't. And I still think that applies in the George Saunders stuff.

Sometimes I'll go out to say hi to people, and I'm just not ready for it. It feels too weird, too intense.

Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.

I'm cool with being the sad guy, but I don't want to be the guy who nobody wants around because he's so miserable.

It's hard to see how much of our social fabric is made up of a radical refusal to love people.

Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the technology obsession.

The interesting thing about doing press is that I learn what the album is about - I now know, a year later, looking back, what was on my mind at the time.

The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.

Every time I think that I've pierced through the simulation, every time I feel like I've written something authentic, it feels like I then sort of lose my footing with it.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

To understand and to know someone better, you need is to love them first

You’re going to make something wonderful of yourself. I promise.You’re doing just fine.

I don't like food that's too carefully arranged it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.

I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.