I didn’t write that song to try and win you over, or to steal you away from him. I wrote it because I knew I never could.

I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.

This is what it means to be in the middle of love, I thought. Being in the middle of love is like being in the middle of a war zone.

I just happen to comprehend the low standards of the majority of the music-buying public, and I don’t care how condescending that sounds, it’s true. They always go for the shiny gimmicks. Always.

I would have remembered the good stuff. Nobody ever remembers the good stuff.

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

Just knowing you exist changed the world for me.