I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

I don't want to be overdramatic about it, but I'm starting to see a lot of my bad habits get the best of me.

There's a cinematic quality that happens in my mind when I hear something that really lands. An album is just a journal of a life moving through time.

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.

If I don't believe it, then they don't need me on the court. I've just got to believe that in my heart.

If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

One word characterizes the most strenuous of the efforts for the advancement of science that I have made perservereingly during fifty-five years; that word is failure

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

The future is always present, as a promise, a lure and a temptation.

I don’t have to win. I just have to make you lose.

That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.

I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.