You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.

If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea

Everyone is broken-hearted except for the drastically unimaginative

In an artistic and spiritual sense I'm really not that concerned about what happens after the album is done.

Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

The idea of starting a band because of Nirvana and thereby trying to sound like Nirvana is totally not the case.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

I never wanted to start a band to sound like Nirvana.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

If you can be anything, be real.

If there is no door to your dream, create one.

Also, vampires don't eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I'd rather die.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.