My mind changed me so much I can’t even trust myself.
-Modest Mouse, Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset

I’m not sure who I am but I know who I’ve been.
-Modest Mouse, Make Everyone Happy/Mechanical Birds

Sometimes all I really want to feel is love. Sometimes I’m angry that I feel so angry. Sometimes my feelings get in the way of what I really feel I needed to say.
-Modest Mouse, Edit The Sad Parts

If you stand in a circle then you’ll all have a back to bite.
-Modest Mouse, Edit The Sad Parts

I was in heaven. I was in hell. Believe in neither but fear them as well.
-Modest Mouse, Doin’ The Cockroach

I’m working on leaving the living.
-Modest Mouse, Workin’ On Leavin’ The Livin’

Well, it took a lot of work to be the ass that I am.
-Modest Mouse, Dark Center Of The Universe

Everyone’s life ends, but no one ever completes it.
-Modest Mouse, Dark Center Of The Universe

And I don’t give a damn about you or this town no more. No, ’cause I know the score.
-Modest Mouse, Perfect Disguise

I can’t be a fool for everyone that I don’t know.
-Modest Mouse, Paper Thin Walls

You’re the good things, yeah, that’s you. You’re the icing on the cake on the table at my wake. You’re the extra ton of cash on my sinking life raft. You’re the loud sound of fun when I’m trying to sleep. You’re the flowers in my house when my allergies come out. You’re the good things…
-Modest Mouse, You’re The Good Things

Let’s take a drive down south. Roll down the windows and open our mouths. Taste where we are and play the music loud. Stop the car, lay on the grass. The planets spin and we watch space pass. Walk a direction, see where we get. I never knew nothin’ so there’s nothin’ to forget. Get real drunk and ride our bikes. There’s so much beauty it could make you cry.
-Modest Mouse, So Much Beauty In Dirt

Everyone’s afraid of their own lives. If you could be anything you want I bet you’d be disappointed, am I right?
-Modest Mouse, Lives

Everyone wants to be a perpetual motion machine. We all try harder as the days run out.
-Modest Mouse, Perpetual Motion Machine

I guess all us snakes find our tails pretty damn tasty!
-Modest Mouse, History Sticks To Your Feet

I’m gonna knock that look off your face like life don’t hold you no mystery.
-Modest Mouse, History Sticks To Your Feet

Well, fads they come and fads they go. And, God, I love that rock and roll!
-Modest Mouse, Bury Me With It

If God controls the land and disease, keeps a watchful eye on me; if he’s really so damn mighty, my problem is I can’t see, well, who would wanna be such a control freak? Who would wanna be such a control freak?
-Modest Mouse, Bukowski

I can’t make it to your wedding, but I’m sure I’ll be at your wake.
-Modest Mouse, Bukowski

Went to bed and didn’t see why every day turns out to be a little bit more like Bukowski. And yeah, I know he’s a pretty good read. But, God, who’d wanna be such an asshole?
-Modest Mouse, Bukowski

I could buy myself a reason. I could sell myself a job. I could hang myself on treason. Oh, I am my own damn god!
-Modest Mouse, This Devil’s Workday

Life it rents us. And, yeah, I hope it put plenty on you. Well, I hope mine did too.
-Modest Mouse, The View

For every invention made, how much time did we save? We’re not much farther than we were in the cave.
-Modest Mouse, The View

As life gets longer, awful feels softer. Well, if feels pretty soft to me. And if it takes shit to make bliss,
well, I feel pretty blissfully.
-Modest Mouse, The View

If life’s not beautiful without the pain, well, I’d just rather never ever even see beauty again.
-Modest Mouse, The View

We are fixed. We are fixed right where we stand.
-Modest Mouse, The View

And we were done, done, done with all the fuck, fuck, fuckin’ around. You were so true to yourself. You were true to no one else. Well, I should put you in the ground.
-Modest Mouse, Black Cadillacs

Don’t worry even if things end up a bit too heavy. We’ll all float on alright.
-Modest Mouse, Float On

Your body may be gone, I’m gonna carry you in… in my head, in my heart, in my soul. And maybe we’ll get lucky and we’ll both live again. Well, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. Don’t think so.
-Modest Mouse, Ocean Breathes Salty

Bang your head like a gong ’cause its’ filled with all wrong!
-Modest Mouse, March Into The Sea

Some day you will die and somehow something’s going to steal your carbon.
-Modest Mouse, Parting Of The Sensory

Well, I love life’s surprises so much. I don’t want to know what’s ahead.
-Modest Mouse, Education

Well, I might be a lot of things, but I won’t be ignored…
-Modest Mouse, Call To Dial A Song

Follow through and follow through. And what you gonna do with your life?
-Modest Mouse, Follow Through

We really don’t belong here. We really ought to wander away.
-Modest Mouse, Pups To Dust

This heart of mine is just some bugged machine. And it gets a-going and it often gets a-going and stops going again.
-Modest Mouse, Sugar Boats

God is an Indian and you’re an asshole. Get on your horse and ride!
-Modest Mouse, God Is An Indian And You’re An Asshole

Wake up, get ready. Such a wonderful trip’s ahead!
-Modest Mouse, The Tortoise And The Tourist

We’re the sexiest of all primates. Let loose with our charms. Shake our ass and wave our arms. All going apeshit!
-Modest Mouse, The Best Room