I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Intuitive knowing can be described as an openness to flashes of insight

There is no better example for our children, then the one we set before them every day

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.

Let me go, let me go.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.