I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

If you love music, than you can play music.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism.

Harry, I've left a letter telling your aunt and uncle not to worry--" "They won't," said Harry. "That you're safe--" "That'll just depress them." "--and you'll see them next summer." "Do I have to?

I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

When the two that share destiny part and reunite, beyond the frame of time, the ceased clock will awake and start to tick once again.