Good bands you can kind of lose, then come back and realize they're still good.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

It’s got to be some kind of cult. Anyone offers you Kool-Aid or a hot shower, say no.

Well, it doesn't look good. Makes me look like one of those unloved latchkey children they make after-school specials about." "Don't sell yourself short. You're more Masterpiece Theatre.

It’s hard, in America, not to equate ‘happiness’ with ‘things’.

Life was a freight train barreling toward just one stop, our loved ones streaking past our windows in blurs of color and light. There was no holding on to any of it, and no slowing it down.

When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.