For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.

...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.

When the wind likes a path, the weeds around that path will tremble all day long!

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Learn the rules, and then forget them.

i'm never going to understand the Barrani." "You needn't sound so morose, Lord Kaylin. They are unlikely to understand you either." "Yes, but I'm unlikely to try to kill them for fun.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

Find a path or make one.

What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

I've had dentists who have wanted to help me out, but I say, 'You know, I won't work again if you fix my teeth.'