People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

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.

Sometimes all you need is a little push to change your life in a BIG way.

Is romantic yearning an appetite for [H]eaven, or is it the ultimate refinement of covetousness?

Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.

So I think that is from the European perspective, for the European future, this engagement can be one of the most important and effective decisions in the last 50 years maybe.

A split second later, my life flashed before my eyes, and I came to one important conclusion about it. It was fun while it lasted.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.

I want to be working with directors who are at the top of their game. I want to be raising the bar for myself, and to me, the best way to do that is to prove to them that I'm the best for this job.

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.