I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Don't let your imperfections conveniently excuse you from having discipline. Have the courage to work through your imperfections.

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

But when you slice truth too thin, you deceive.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

Love is much deeper than a feeling. Love is a commitment we make to people to always treat that person right and honorably.

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

The miracle of being able to pay attention to other people in your life, and the miracle of being in time, and to continue being in time.

I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.