I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

This isn't like naming your dog Spot.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

I'd rather be around broken people who have a degree of humility, and just get on with their work.

I love lots of different types of music, but it's music that has this up-swelling of beauty and emotion that is most important to me.

If someone is cynical and doesn't vote and ends up with a crummy job in a crummy country with a decimated environment, they only have themselves to blame.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.