I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.

I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

MySpace is such a weird world to me. I don't have a MySpace account. The stuff that's up there, I didn't set any of it up. Fans set it up.

I record to my heart's content whatever I feel like.

I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.

I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things.

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

I like the idea of quietly putting music out there and seeing what it does for itself, to let it take it's own life and see if people respond to it, simply because of what it is.

I don't have a dayjob or anything. And then, winter's [makes it] hard to do anything.

The Garden is a metaphor for the following: our minds, and our thinking in terms of pairs of opposites--man and woman, good and evil--are as holy as that of a god. (50)

I realized that the knowledge I gained over this period in my life was power, and it felt like a waste not to share that wealth with the world, with people who could benefit,

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

so far as you continue to entertain what makes you unhappy, you shall always dance to the tune of what will make you unhappy. A mindset change can cause a great change.

Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.

The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

Everyone should be praised by the lips of his neighbor, and not by his own mouth. Everyone should be commended by the work he has done, not by what he wanted to do.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

I've been fortunate with the changeup. I've been able to throw it for strikes.