It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years.

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.

Achieving your heart’s desire is the key to living a life of bliss, bring your heart alive with a passion for living.

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

To get over artist's block, make shitty art.

While the public school rewards failure by throwing more government money at failing school systems, the voucher system does the opposite.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.