“When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing...” — Denis Johnson Quote

“When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.”

“With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I'd been thinking, all in the hope of moving into the unforeseen.”

“You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations.”

“The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.”

“The music industry as a whole needs to genuinely make a conscious effort to look after people's physical and mental health.”

“Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.”