Records don't have to be perfect.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

It doesn't matter how many friends you have on Facebook or twitter, if you have no real friends means you have nothing in your life.

Fall in love with someonewho tastes like adventurebut looks likethe calm, beautiful morningafter a terrible storm

Those that control the definitions, steer the culture as they please.

I've had to adjust to karaoke as a modern reality that obscures our hunt for what we're truly after.

We can have Americans eating affordably and eating in a way that's sustainable.

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.

I'm looking forward to free skiing the most. Just groomers, big wide groomers making nice big turns.

I never saw Portsmouth by day.

However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.