Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.

Yes, you're right. It's part of growing up, I suppose. You always have to leave something behind you.ü

The time I've lost in wooing In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes Has been my heart's undoing.

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.

I am a very public person. I have nothing to hide.

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

The networked world offers the promise that maybe the information technology industry will start to, for the first time in a decade or so, address CEO-level issues.

Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.