When you try to put everything into music, there's no room left to try to make you think we're cool. We know you think we're cool.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

If I cannot fix your broken heart can I put mine in its place, because these stars are not enough, and all the money in the world does not equal your worth.

Ohh, ' said the girl with a sad tilt of her

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

Success is not getting to the top - but how you bounce up from the bottom that counts.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

I'm not interested in a pretty world. It's boring to me.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

You really turning mercenary on your favorite older brother? (Dev) No. I would never do that to Alain. (Aimee) Ouch! Bearswan got ‘tude. (Dev)

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see.