If you're scared of dying you better not be scared to live.

- Mark Oliver Everett

I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

- Mark Oliver Everett

I was born the son of a humble mechanic. A quantum mechanic.

- Mark Oliver Everett

Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me…

- Mark Oliver Everett

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

- Mark Oliver Everett

For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I t…

- Mark Oliver Everett

Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three m…

- Mark Oliver Everett

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When som…

- Mark Oliver Everett

Maybe I don't like people as much as the rest of the world seems to...But occasionally, people will pleasantly surprise me and I'll fall in love with…

- Mark Oliver Everett