I wish they’d conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn’t. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there are.
God is present in the sweeping gesture, but the devil is in the details.
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.
There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.
The studio’s a collaborative environment. I just try to let people bring their own ideas to the songs and see what happens.
Good things never last, bad things never die.
One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.
People talk about songwriting or comedy as creative expression, but life is creative expression. Table-making, even nursing, is extraordinarily creative.
There are only two stories: either you go forward or you die.
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
The moment where you know the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway. The direction in which you’re headed is not the direction you want to go, yet you’re going to head that way a while longer cause that’s just the kind of person you are.
People say friends don’t destroy one another – what do they know about friends?
You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.
You can get really good reads on your dreams if you think of every character in them as actually being you.
When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don’t expect him to thank or forgive you.
This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that’s fine too. I’m not sitting back here telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.
May we all emerge from winter with our strength renewed and any unwanted pieces left under the ice.
Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.
It usually happens that I have multiple different projects going on at once, and one can be referencing the other.