An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion.

PLAGIARIZE, v. To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.

People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them hanging out together.

No one nor anything can silence me.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

The danger facing American Jews today is not that Christians want to persecute them but that Christians want to marry them.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

Well, we went through a lot of names. But seeing as, musically, I wanted to swing through the jungle baring my arse, I thought Gorillaz was a perfect name.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.