I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of questioning, and guilt. Almost an "anti-ambit….

It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous..

I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that..

With Portlandia, I don't think our intention is always to find something funny. Sometimes the humor comes from taking something really seriously. We'….

I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered j….

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other me….

I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, ….

I don't think you need to sound like from where you're from. But I think there is something magical and powerful about encompassing something fully a….

Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain..

Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true..

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic..

I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musi….

You'd hope that no writing about music could supersede the music itself. But I do think that blogs mirror the way that we are listening. It comes at ….

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music..

I have no desire to play music unless I need music..

I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I h….

Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, wi….

To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without….

"We can't name it, but we can sing along." That is my ultimate relationship to any art form, but especially music..

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved..

The internet is just a scary place. It's better to just go to the doctor. Don't let Google get inside your head. It will do bad things to you..