I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

There is no window to look outside.There is no window to look within.Open the doors.

I love you more than too much.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

Deny your emotions and act like you have answers

My father was a very disciplined singer who worked hard at his craft, and I was around that growing up.

Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Procrustes was an editor.