How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.
If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?
I think if you're a lady playing a guitar, other ladies need to see you playing the guitar, and they don't need to see men come out and fix your equipment for you. It just looks incredibly pussy. So I just do it all myself.
I should have been an abortion. The only reason I wasn't was that my father was a Christian.
I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.
There are things about the production I'm not crazy about though. People mix records to be heard in cars and to have the bass incredibly loud so the vocals have to fight with everything so there's no dynamic left, and that's kind of a bummer. That may not be my taste but I'm not going to go, "Kanye's not very good," because he's pretty badass. It's a difference in taste, like the New Pornographers and myself have different taste in production as well but it all works out in the end.
I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn. ' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.
You will never make the crab walk straight.
But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.
No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.
Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.