I'm a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side.

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.

Anybody, and any company, can have a big run of success once, but if you're going to repeat that over time, you need to be aware that you need to keep learning.

I used to sing on the school bus everyday.

Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

A good adaptation of your book is worth it because it is such a wonderful experience to see your world translated onto the screen.

It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.

Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Just because you feel fear doesn't mean you can't do it. Do it afraid

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

Knowledge in not acquired from without but merely recollected from within. The recollection of knowledge from within is an electro-magnetic process of thinking Mind.