“My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.”

It’s been such a group effort. When you’re a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that’s great.

I wasn’t ever good enough to be on the baseball team and that sort of stuff.

I had a very modest upbringing.

Because I’m such a studio guy, I really trust my process. I really believe in myself in the studio.

I wanted to be a professional baseball player.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

I like to challenge myself and give myself a timeline. It pushes me to be more creative and actually do these things, not just dream about them.

Hearing the record and seeing the response is affirming that it was the right time and right choice.

I didn’t do the typical things that young kids do.

Nobody believes it, but I slept on a futon till I was 13.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

But I’ve consistently worked for 10 years.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

My parents were hippies.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they’re likable.

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.

Sometimes you have to chop off the dead ends so that you can continue To grow in a healthy direction.

Every fairytale has its own hell but there’s always heaven in the end.

He treated her like a ghost, not wonder her memory haunted him long after she was gone.

We should never know how to adjust means to ends, or to employ our natural powers in the production of any effect. There would be an end at once of all action, as well as of the chief part of speculation.

Sure she would drink & digress with you but i undressed your soul. He sank in the shallow end.