Painting and animation can be kind of long work. Music was more immediate and more fun.

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.

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."

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.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read

He that climbs a ladder must begin at the first round.

They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

To be a success in business, be daring, be first, be different.

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.