You can't get better at things you never play.

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.

Make a real not alibis

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.

All you leave the world is what you've done. No one will ever know the conditions, the comments, the pressures. Only the work remains.

I take work very seriously and telling the truth in my job and professionalism.

You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again.

The Capitol looks beautiful and I am honored to be at work tonight.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

You don't think about anything because you just try to playevery game, every point. If you get some chance, you try to take this chance.

It's an incredible play, and not only that, that's the type of plays Malcolm makes for our team.