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.

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

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.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

I liked projects where I could take things apart and figure out exactly how they worked. The problem is, you can't do that with people.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around.

Most of the scientific community believes that for the full potential of embryonic stem cell research to be reached, the number of cell lines readily available to scientists must increase.

I'm totally applying assumed Creative Commons rights and ripping this post from Jason verbatim, since it says everything I want to.

If you want anything to change, you've got to change it. If you want things to get better, you've got to get better. And the only way to really do well in life is to find more value than anybody.