I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

Every life is precious, has value, a purpose, and is significant. Each life adds value to this world and to the lives of others. That value is immeasurable.

Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next.

We cannot force the development of mindfulness.

I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

The United States has, overall, the most effective system of higher education the world has ever known.

Men will not fight and die without knowing what they are fighting and dying for.

Having children just puts the whole world into perspective. Everything else just disappears.

I don't think that I've had a career like anyone else's, but there are hosts and hosts of actors whose careers I admire.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.