You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.

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.

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

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