With all of the people in the world and all of the suffering and all of the things that people are forced to do for lack of other alternative, the fact that I had a subsidized education and got to go right into a life of playing music for a living, what a stupidly fortunate place to be.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

The idea that things used to be better is fantasy. It's putting a halo on something that no one can disprove.

I think the only thing that we even have a small tangent of reality or truth about is right now - the moment that is happening right this second. Everything else is up for grabs.