I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun.

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Fearlessly use the power of your will & determination to go forth in life, strengthened.

I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.

Fang: "Have you guys been playing in the toxic waste again? Been bitten by a radioactive spider? Struck by lightning? Drink a super-soldier serum?"

Who knows how Mario will look in the future. Maybe he'll wear metallic clothes!

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.