Somewhere where people aren't so mad would be nice, but I don't know if there is anywhere like that.

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.

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.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves.

Life works with balance. If you give and receive out of giving, you create a balance with life. You serve life, before you expect life to serve you.

All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.

Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.

The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.

I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those people - those workers. I'm glad that the service industry unionized.

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

Atheism is cheap on people, because it snobbishly says nine out of ten people through history have been wrong about God and have had a lie at the core of their hearts.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

War starts in the mind, not in the body.