"Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in."

“I think our fans are a bit like us — they’re very fun, like to have a laugh, like to party. I think that’s what comes across on our album as well. It’s very fun. It’s music that you could play at a party, but it also deals with teenage relationships.”

“At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...”

Source : "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

“Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.”

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”

Source : 'Political Essays' (1819) '"The Times" Newspaper'

“I am the least likely person in the world to be in an American football film! Which is why I couldn't say no to The Replacements; I thought it was hilarious.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.”

“I do not enjoy the promotional side of being a writer, to be blunt about it. Even with the little amount that is expected of me, which is nothing compared to the life of an artist. Writers can live in obscurity and come out of the woodwork with a book, then go back in. Artists don’t have that luxury.”

“It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and 70s and pretend that something really big didn't change then. It did change. There really was a significant institutional decline.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com