I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.

I think if I were living in a utopian world, then it wouldn't be political commentary; it would be about daffodils.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Being alive and understanding that and making the decision to actually live take a lot of courage.

Sometimes it's better to live through someone's work than the person themselves, and to realise that every human being is flawed, but through art they can be perfect.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Generally I try to read anything but indie rock journalism or anything about music at all, especially in the summer.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

Until the day we die, our lives are unwritten, which is sometimes a terrifying thought.

It's not my fault that people are perverts.

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we do not understand.

Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.

Well, having no intelligence, I'm looking forward to gaining some, whether artificial, superficial or super-duper.

We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.

I wish to live because life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love.

I stake the future on the few humble and hearty lovers who seek God passionately in the marvelous, messy world of redeemed and related realities that lie in front of our noses.