I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.

There's always room for improvement. I'm always focused on the results, and those are the precise things that I don't really experience as a part of the performance.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I'm not dissatisfied, just not satisfied in an ultimate sense.

I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.

My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

Embrace all people with love.

Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

The unfamiliarity of the subconscious mind can turn one into one's worst enemy of happiness and success.

In the beginning God created the heavans and the earth... see you at the final.

We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.