You have to be a really talented writer if you're trying to encapsulate a news story with a song and have it live after the event. I don't have the focus to do that, really.

I want to be around these positive, expressive people who are doing something different and who also want to get the hell out of there and don't want to be around basic human bullshit.

If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.

It's insane when someone shows up to your show and is like, "You could run off with me right now!" I'm like, "It's cool, I think I'm gonna go read."

There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

Hearing that [David] Bowie passed was like you don't really believe it. It's as if the sky shifted a little bit, to remind you it was there.

I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.

I have nothing against people getting their band back together, but the artists I love marked a time in my life, and to merge that time with now can be personally depressing.

...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

The way you treat yourself sends a very clear message to others about how they should treat you.

I'm vulnerable most when I'm in love.

When sins are dear to us we are too prone to slide into them again. The act of repentance itself is often sweetened with the thought that it clears our account for a repetition of the same sin.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.