Everyone wants to pretend like they sprang out of the ground with an Animal Collective record in their hands and a David Bowie haircut, and that's just not the case. You discover these things gradually.

Stray thought for the day: Putting boundaries on how punk should sound/look is the least punk rock thing one can do. Be yourself=Very punk.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

I always thought 'Stump' was kind of like, you dropped something on your foot. It's not the most exotic rock-star name.