I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

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.

You spit in this?""Yup."Chris shrugged. "As long as you're honest.

To all the living there is hope for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home Mom.

I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

We should focus more on the things we've accomplished, but I mean, obviously Syria disturbs me greatly and I'm not happy with where Syria is.

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love.

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.