I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

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.

Extraordinary women who love and heal.

Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

A peculiar work in any art must not be too hastily judged. New styles have to create new tastes.

I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

Thy return Posterity shall witness. Years must roll away, but then at length the splendid sight again shall greet our distant children's eyes.

A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.

To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win.

Kids and cameras are a big things with me. Find a kid who digs cameras and share one simple photo tip with her.

Rumors are the sauce of a dry life.