Favorite Lines

"While Frank Sinatra sings stormy weather the flies and the spiders get along together" - Frank Sinatra, Cake


"This is an old song, these are old blues/ And this is not my tune but it's mine to use" - Sadie, Joanna Newsom

"A Hydro-field cuts through my neighborhood/Somehow that always just made me feel good/I can put a spare bulb in my hand and light up my yard" - Light Up My Room, Bare Naked Ladies

"We'll be the dreamers of your dreams" - When We Turn Our Hearts to Heaven, Noel Richards

"Help me I think Im falling in love with you/Will you let me go there by myself? It's such a lonely thing to do..."- Help Me, Joni Mitchell

"Adjectives on the typewriter/He moves his words like a prize fighter/The frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell" - Shadow Stabbing, Cake

"I'm thinking its a sign/ The freckles in our eyes are mirror images and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned" - Such Great Heights, Iron and Wine

"When we're driving in the car it makes my baby seem so far / I need you hear with me, not way over in a bucket seat" - Stick Shifts and Safety Belts, Cake

"And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers/ And we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words/ When across the sky sheet the impossible birds/ In a steady illiterate movement homewards" - This Side of the Blue, Joanna Newsom


"This was unlike the story it was written to be/ I was riding its back when it used to ride me/ And we were galloping manic to the mouth of the source/ We were swallowing panic in the face of its force/ And I was blue and unwell/ Made me bolt like a horse"- Peach, Plum, Pear, Joanna Newsom

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