When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

Buy my album because... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.

There's nothing more badass than being who you are.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

Never let what is popular actually define your taste or interests.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

Chris Colfer... he's like a... playful wood-nymph.

A stone, no matter how small, resists the wind.

seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll

He was uncomplicated and upbeat and easy. At one point, I might have thought these traits made him a simpleton, but now I think they just translate to happiness.

Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

I always like being surprised and sort of caught off guard by other people's work. So it doesn't cause me any anxiety to explore different avenues.

Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today.

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.