I always wanted to move to New York because of the Velvet Underground, because of the picture that they painted of New York City.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.