"Don't forget what you've learned:
All you give is returned
And if life seems absurd 
What you need is some laughter
And a season to sleep 
and a place to get clean...
Take the fruit from the tree, 
break the skin with your teeth
Is it bitter or sweet? 
All depends on your timing."

-CONOR OBERST,

"Cleanse Song"

"There's no sorrow that the sun's not gonna heal."

-CONOR OBERST,

"Sausalito"

"You remind me of something/ a song that I am/ and you sing me back into myself." 

-BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY

"Do you wonder where the self resides?/Is it in your head or between your sides?/And who will be the one who will decide/Its true location?"

-ANDREW BIRD

"I'm under the illusion that I have to choose."

-EMILIANA TORRINI

"...You know its hard to tell
When youre in the spell if its wrong or if its real
But youre bound to lose
If you let the blues get you scared to feel."

-JONI MITCHELL,
"Willy"

"We gladly run in circles but the shape we meant to make is gone."

-IRON & WINE,
Lion's Mane

“For those of you who tried but didn’t make it, settle down, it’s never what you think. The summit doesn’t differ from the deep dark valley, and the valley doesn’t differ from the kitchen sink.”

-SHE & HIM

“Do his hands in your hair feel a lot like a thing you believe in, or a bit like a bird stealing bread out from under your nose?”

-IRON & WINE),
Bird Stealing Bread

“Never trust a heart so bent it can’t break.”

-CONOR OBERST,
Classic Cars

“And in store are dreams so daring that the night can't stop from staring. I'll swim sweetly as a herring through the ether, not despairing.”

-JOANNA NEWSOM,
Cassiopeia

“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.”

-BRIGHT EYES,
Laura Laurent

“Never get so attached to a poem you forget truth that lacks lyricism; never draw so close to the heat that you forget that you must eat.”

-JOANNA NEWSOM,
En Gallop

"God, there are guns growing out of our bones. God, every road takes us farther from home. All these men that you made how we wither in the shade of your trees, on your wings we are carried to the sea. God, give us love in the time that we have."

-IRON & WINE,
On Your Wings

"This is how it works: you're young until you're not, you love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh, and everyone must breathe until their dying breath. Oh this is how it works: you peer inside yourself, you take the things you like and try to love the things you took, and then you take that love you made and stick it into some, someone else's heart, pumping someone else's blood, and walking arm in arm, you hope it don't get harmed, but even if it does, you just do it all again."

-REGINA SPEKTOR,
On the Radio