Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.
I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.
I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.
When I get compared to artists like José González or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, 'I've been doing this since they were in third grade. '
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.
We're all human and life is complicated.
I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes.
Everyone should in some way be creative, irrespective of the quality of that which he creates.
Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.
Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise power and control people's minds, or is he a 5-year-old who has an ego that needs to be fed, and the universe has to warp around his ego needs so he can feel good about himself, and everybody has to produce photos to make the monarch feel like he's made of gold.