Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb..
Fear doesn't prevent death, but it certainly prevents life..
The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..
Money won is always better than money earned..
Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us..
If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go..
My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics..
Andrew Calhoun tells the truth. To my knowledge, there is no better songwriter alive..
Since I started making music, it had always been for myself..
We are unusual and tragic and alive..
It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true..
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not..
There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved..
My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….
Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..
Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..
Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan..
Some things are as they are regardless of what they were..
When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence..
Whatever you subsidize you get more of..