I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

Modern humans became fixated on a collective hallucination of linear time, ignoring the fractal spirals of the surrounding universe.

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

If you step back from it and really think about what the mass media does on a global scale, the most significant thing it does is coordinate behaviour.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

I think that the more people go through their own personal initiations, the less collective destruction may be unleashed on the planet.

The idea that I really like is December 21st, 2012. Try to get a global moment of collective reflection as a way to bring about an uptick in human consciousness.

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

Maybe the same instruments and tools that have been used to keep people in slavery and ignorance could potentially be used to liberate and awaken them.

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.

For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

I'd like to make a show with Keith Richards.

People have crushes on priests all the time, you know. It’s exciting to have to deal with God as a rival.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.