Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

It’s never too late to drop your beliefs and let your wounds heal. Instead of wounding others as well.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

By remembering it too often I have blurred the memory itself.

It's quite funny how a lot of people are ignorant of the good and bad aspects of the social media. Clean and reserved posts is ideal!

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

Everybody is trying to be so trendy. I think not being trendy should be the next trend.

Foreign aid breeds kleptocracies, or governments of thieves.

It's just satisfying for me to be able to write kind of like a finished, nice product.

I've never disclosed for whom I'm voting.

There are things you break that can't be put back together again. And Kashmir may be one of them.