Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.

Words, for me, don't have as much contextual leeway as sound.

I love a lot of people in bands and people doing weird art stuff, but i will always forget someone and i don't really want to be part of stamping the boundaries on a scene.

I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

I am a musician before a writer, and a drawer before a writer. When I lose sight of that, which I do, my work tends to suffer.

I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

Maybe people are finally tiring of watered down grunge rock on the radio.

I try to drum each day. It's therapeutic.

It's really nice to have things to mail to people when they mail you things, or trade to people at shows. Something homemade, it feels... down to earth.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

Since I had a soft spot for zombies and my curiosity was killing me, I opted for plan Z.

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

A grandmother's special calling is to pray and to be a fellow worker in the battle in which her children or her grandchildren are engaged.

Nine out of 10 people who recognize me recognize me from the commercials.

The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.