Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.

There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

I seem to get the best work when I'm angry and depressed and alienated.

It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.

A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

Hope is a happy spirit.

Valor was in Nikodemos, unquestionable, and commitment like trees to stand or night to fall.

Every day of my life is going out in public and seeing people's lives and listening to stories - all that kind of stuff musically inspires me.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

You can do anything if you set goals. You just have to push yourself.

It's the thought that counts.