It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

Most of the bands that I really like no longer exist. That might just be because I'm in my thirties or whatever. But I also think it's the rare band that doesn't, like, turn into something else.

What is right is the ultimate law and trumps the law of the land.

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right.

Survival is triumph enough.

It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.

While leadership depends on depth of conviction and the power coming therefrom, there must also be the ability to share that conviction with others.

My theory with the auctions has been to try to make them like a party, like a social event. If people are having a good time, talking with their friends, they're much more likely to bid.