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We might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

There's nothing that the road cannot heal

The drunk kids, the catholics They're all about the same They're waiting for something Hoping to be saved

I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long Then you blink and it's gone

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

The only thing major labels can really offer is money.

I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.

It's exploding bags, aerosol cans Southbound buses, Peter Pan They left it up to us again I thought you knew the drill It's kill or be killed.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

I think it is more like a ghost that has been following us both. Something vague that we're not seeing, something more like a feeling.

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.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.

My Brother went to college To become a doctor And if he studies hard enough He'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.

Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt. Do you like to hurt? I do, I do then hurt me.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.

When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place.

I think different musical collaborators bring out different qualities in my songs and I like that.

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.

In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault.

I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.

I always embrace the worst-case scenario.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.

We [ the Desaparecidos ] are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

And in the morning when the sun rise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.

We [ Desaparecidos] try to be the opposite of apathetic. There are so many young people in America that are apathetic.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

There is no Hell when you die so don't look so worried

Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.

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.

When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

One by one I drowned all the people I'd been.

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.

I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery. Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean, I really think you like me.

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.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

I swear that I'm dying slowly but it's happening, and if the perfect spring is waiting somewhere ... just take me there.

My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love ...

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.

Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.

If I loved you, well that's my fault

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.

It's hard to get people to focus on one idea.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

Love's an excuse to get hurt.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

It's human nature to wonder.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

I'm happy just because I found out I am really no one

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.

A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.

The world's become a little too mean.

I need some meaning I can memorize. The kind I have always seems to slip my mind.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

If you love something, give it away.

We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Each song [Desaparecidos] has a seed that it came from. We're trying to take that and broaden it out and make it resonate with people.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

No lies, just love.

Everything must belong somewhere. I know that now, that's why I'm staying here.

I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.

I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.