I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

I can really only can record at home.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

Be kind to every body and every body will be kind to you.

When you're suffering, you're oversensitive to everything.

But no guy was worth being a girl guys cheated with.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in.

Nobility, without virtue, is a fine setting without a gem