I just love fiction. I love it.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

I see a very dark cloud on America's horizon, and that cloud is coming from Rome.

Minnesotans know the difference between the job of satirist and the job of senator. And so do I.

My nature is to be linear, and when I'm not, I feel really proud of myself.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

My mom and my sisters were amazing; they always see the good in people. My mom, she doesn't know how to write and read much, but she's one of the most fantastic women I've met in my life.

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain - he is inspired by it.