I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.

The ideal pre-show meal I think is pho, the Vietnamese soup. It's very light and good for you, and then the broth is great for the throat.

I had a lot of jobs in New York. I worked in a café and I did bike delivery and I was a mover. And I babysat, which was really cool in some cases and really insane in others.

There was never a thought of career in my brain ever for anything.

I've put out kind of a lot of albums and people seem to like it and the crowds keep getting bigger and bigger, so I think maybe I could make a life out of it.

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.

I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

I do not, " I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.

Having a poverty mentalityleaves you focusing on all thethings you don’t have, when inreality you probably already haveeverything you need.

Men like us are good and proud and strong...if we had a faith, a God, nothing could undermine us. But we had nothing, we had to learn everything, and living for honor alone has its weaknesses.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

Do not make judgments, and you will travel no quicker road to the forgiveness of your sins. 'Judge not, so that you may not be judged' (Lk. 6:37).

If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.

We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body.

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.