Failure is a disappointment, but not defeat.

The first rule for success? Show up.

Don't send a man to the grocery store.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!

If your eyes dwell in your heart

Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes.

You know, you're very strong" Nicola said."Thank you.""That's no compliment. It's your weakness. If you weren't so strong you wouldn't have to take it and so you wouldn't.

Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Ideas are incestuous.

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

I'm not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he's a pragmatist.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.