I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

Sometimes my hands they don’t feel like my own; I need someone to love, I need someone to hold.

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

I like what I like, I don't like what I don't like, and I'm very bad at toning myself down.

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.

I want to talk about things that are tangible and real to me, but I also want to do them in a way that's poetic and artistic.

With music, it feels natural that, in my head, I can pull things apart and then put them back together very quickly.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people.

Good things don't happen to the child of God; the child of God brings forth good things out of him.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

It's hard in a monetary system to trust people.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

I don't really believe in the auteur theory.

Abortion is a woman's right.

In '93 to '94, every browser had its own flavor of HTML. So it was very difficult to know what you could put in a Web page and reliably have most of your readership see it.