A bands first albums usually not great. When you made the first album, you had a day job and you were still trying to be serious about it.

It's hard always to say what it is one likes about a place, for me. I feel it.

I suspect by the time the Beatles were writing the White Album, they didn't go, "'I Wanna Hold Your Hand!' I wanna play that!" It's like if somebody asked you to put on the clothes you wore in high school. Well, no. No!

It's impossible to be content all the time - you have to learn to be content in places where you're unhappy and owning your emotions, whatever they are.

It's a cliché to state that one should think like a child, but it's clear that kids know something that the world tries to make you unlearn later in life.

I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun.

People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.