Being well-mannered and gracious and kind are things that I value really highly.

The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

I light candles. I meditate. And I don't believe in anything. By default I move simultaneously towards mysticism and atheism. It's not something that's ever going to get fixed.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

I was always face to face with total futility and powerlessness.

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.

I learned to live in my own head. I learned to follow intuition and more than anything, I learned what was important to me.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

Go ahead and do what you're doing.

If you're with an agent and they don't like where your work is going - the pressure behind it is the pressure of the hierarchy which says "I know what I am talking about," which I find offensive.

We must be kind and gentle gardeners with people and nature.

Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.

Sin is that God said something and i don't think so. Sin is to be conceived with my own ideas. Sin is that i see it my way and not God's way.Sin is my own Ideas. Sin is Unbelieve

When you focus on miracles you will be manipulated

The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to fit the headlines they wanted to create.

No one belongs to me; I belong to no one. There is no "I" or "mine"; all is blissful aloneless.