"I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me."

-- Jim Hodges

“And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.”
“I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.”
“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I had been working my first record really hard and toured the heck out of it. I didn't have anything to write about so touring with The Decemberists was what I needed. I could work and take in the world again. You're just the side man and don't need all the info. You're also less busy than when your name is on the ticket, so I had days free to read, watch movies, and just look up.”
“I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'”
“My mother was pretty much on my case all the time.”
“I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.”

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