There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.

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

I think short-term goals are important. Trying to set a missive for yourself for the entire year can be daunting, and it can feel too easy to fail or fall short of that.

I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.

I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

I'm kind of a hermit. it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.