I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I don't really like New York better than Portland. It's just a different place.

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.

Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks

I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.

Everything means nothing to me

I truly hope the future will bring me something to feel nostalgic about, because there's really nothing much so far I can remember fondly.

Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

Music is worth doing just because. It doesn’t have to be justified by some political point of view, and it’s kind of insulting to the music to make it a tool for something else.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

To own a man's heart is to own him for life.

Failure is impossible.

Faith believes in spite of the circumstances and acts in spite of the consequences.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Everyone sees different things.

Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence.

Idealism and realism meet in the actual.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.