There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

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.

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, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.

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 in it, but we can't get across that gully.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

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

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