"At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world."

-- Will Oldham

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“It's hard not to get down on the government when you see dysfunction play out on our TVs every day. Frankly, sometimes at every level of government.”

Source : "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. June 14, 2015.
“It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because I've spent so much of my time, so much of my life trying to get really good at writing songs and playing instruments.”
“All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.”

Source : "Enchanted". Book by Alethea Kontis, 2012.
“Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because thereâ€™s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didnâ€™t require me to write or think.”

Source : "Purity of Essence: One Question for Nell Zink". Interview with Matthew Jakubowski, www.theparisreview.org. December 8, 2014.
“The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes.”
“In the end, everything is a gag.”
“Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I didn't start to be an artist myself until I was 24.”

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