I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

Make the goal huge and you cannot miss!

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

The journey may be more important than the destination.

No need to queue up

Any woman's death diminishes me.

Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.

The control of a large force is the same principle as the control of a few men: it is merely a question of dividing up their numbers.