“Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail. Dying is another way...”

“Playing it safe is the most popular way to fail.”

“You can't get better at things you never play.”

“Everybody gets a tag. If you listen to a Velvet Underground record, you don't think, 'Godfathers of Punk.' You just think, 'This sounds great.' The tags are there in order to help try to sell something by giving it a name that's going to stick in somebody's memory. But it doesn't describe it. So 'depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.”

“. . . 'Depressing' isn't a word I would use to describe my music. But there is some sadness in it -- there has to be, so that the happiness in it will matter.”

“i'm never gonna know you now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow”

“Tired of dancing on a pot of gold flake paint”