The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.
Shoes are a great invention. They keep us from stepping on nails. Your feet stay clean and warm and dry.
I think that there is something about the ritual of making things more difficult that people find meaning in.
Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.
Sometimes when you look at somebody else's career or choices or family, there's almost a comfort in knowing there's another option.
There's something about mean-spiritedness that has a way of distancing an audience.
Of course, 'Portlandia' is all about ways that people curate their physical space and their life.
With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.
I wish I'd lived in New York in my early twenties. Or learned to speak more languages at a young age. I didn't do either.
I willed myself into being.
People barely have anything to say in 140 characters. The last thing we need is a bunch of discursive rambling on Twitter.
I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.
When it comes to music, we should be hoping for as outlandish a Republican candidate as we can get.
I actually think that Republican administrations are better for music. The Reagan era was such a great era for punk and indie rock.
I love James Baldwin's autobiographical writing.
I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.
I feel like I came in comedy's side door, and still feel very fraudulent in many ways.
I associate Taylor Swift with some pretty kinky stuff.
Grief is sort of the allowance of feeling.
I love my friends, but I feel pretty autonomous.
When the band first started, it was so much about carving out some space for myself and our audience and our songs.
There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.
So many things can be filtered through fandom - joy, compassion, love.
The 'New York Times' is my homepage because it forces me to go right into the news.
I've always felt unclaimed.
My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.
One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.
My father wasn't just taciturn - it was like he didn't want to be heard.
Kissing is kind of scary.
I'm a huge Quasi fan.
