I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.
The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.
How strange it is to be anything at all
And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.
Even our concepts about romantic love, I think, are destructive; treating people as property is destructive; being jealous of other people is destructive. You know, being jealous is a perfectly natural thing to feel, so it's not about suppressing jealousy, but learning to come to terms with it and to recognize its destructiveness and then to transform it.
Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave-with both ends kicked out.
Jesus loves you, but everyone else thinks you're an ass.
I never want to feel complacent, and I had started to, a little bit. I had started to feel like "I have this thing I can do, it's worked a few times," but not only does that get boring, but you feel stagnant and unproductive. So I was feeling a lack of creativity and motivation, so I started making a more conscious choice to grow personally. It wasn't even an image-conscious thing, like, "I don't want people to think this way about me. " It was really just a way to keep myself energized and feel excited about this thing I love doing. Like I went to couples therapy or something.
Don't give me songs, give me something to sing about!