Don't object so much, you'll live longer.

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.

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

Parents are the most precious gift given by the god. We should take care of it.

Seek knowledge.Learning has no end.Learning makes you forever young.

education without inspiration is only a recipe for desperation

He rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.

No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.

They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."

Im not letting my best freind die. been there done that. i got that freakin tshirt

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.