I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.
It's human nature to wonder.
If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
I think there are some songs that stand the test of time better than others for sure. I think some songs go out of favour; I'll get sick of a song for a while, and I won't play it; then it'll make a comeback.
I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place.
Love's an excuse to get hurt.
