I can remember being eight years old and having infinite possibilities. But life ends up being so much less that we thought it would be when we were ….

I feel like I've been in love, but I have stood aside from it over and over again in my life. It's all you want, but it's terrifying..

Being in a band is about making the band the priority..

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them ….

Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, soci….

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative p….

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame..

Closeness to another person is like a fear of falling off a building to me. It's really, like, physically painful, and it's a brand of crazy I don't ….

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see h….

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel..

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile….

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a….

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time..

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic..

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain....

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic..

You want to embrace, but I can't figure out how to hold on to it..

People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright.".

I find that truly heartbreaking that, like, it's such a common, constant thing in people's lives - a brutal abuse of people by other people, and it's….

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white..

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first..