I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

I think that from the beginning of me making music, I always had it in my mind to combine things that I like to listen to in a way that I had never heard before.

I love people like Kate Bush and Stevie Nicks and David Bowie - people that project themselves as characters and that contextualizes the music.

My job is to file things! I'm not going to be like, "Mr. Jacobsen from Oakland, California" - just listing his problems, like a rap.

If you have a lot of textural stuff happening in music you get called shoegaze, or whatever, and then it becomes about the sound and not about the songs.

It's really cool what you can do with a guitar and a Fender Twin and a space echo.

There is great power in our words, because theyare thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them.

Digital fit” should be first defined as “mind fit, ” and then following with attitude fit and behavior fit.

It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.

Cynicism is humour in ill health.

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

That which is priceless has no cost.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God…For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward.

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science.