I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

We're not on the outside looking in, we're on the outside looking out.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

You need to believe in something that's bigger than yourself. I think that's what everybody wants to believe in that.

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

Lies are the first step to the violent protection of them

Two Strapping Alpha Billionaires. One Girl Looking For A Fresh Start. A Heck of A Wild Ride!

I am a fairly go-with-the-flow guy. Don't get me wrong, I have convictions.

I don't have anything to prove.

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

I'm still talking about some heavy issues, but it feels a lot happier to me.