As far as the music being inspired by Seattle, I think it's in some of the songs. Seattle is a really beautiful place in the right light, it's perched on a pretty unique geographic setting.

I don't really hang out with anyone. I'll hang out with my band ... but I don't have any friends aside from that.

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

I'm looking forward to doing things more intuitively in the future, just going with whatever happens and not immediately categorizing it as potentially good or bad or original or whatever.

The lyrics to me are a result of the emotional and creative climate present while making the record as well as personally going through a sort of mid-twenties stock-taking.

I think that's becoming more and more of a priority, letting other aspects of life take precedent over making music, or just approaching the whole thing more holistically.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

I don't know that we're really going to need a label for the things we're thinking about doing next.

Sometimes I do get writer's block but it's more of a writer's doubt - I'll try and write but nothing goes anywhere because I start thinking everything sucks.

The heart has a deeper intelligence than the mind ever will.

The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.

Inside each of us dwells a more-perfect self waiting to unfold. It cries loudly for release, yet it is sometimes ignored. To answer its call, you must take time to listen.

Peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart.

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.