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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nothing attunes you to the beauty of the quotidian like a man who decides not to kill you after all

Sometimes the dustiest cover hides the best book. Sometimes the best cup is chipped.

One spring patio is for rodeosniggled with iodine figures, weavedtapestries inside vast Tuileries.But that reminds me, how exactlydo words form brittle histories

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night.

Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.

...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.