I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I guess, like how the public wants it to sound.

I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.

I've been trying to write really simple songs to make them sound like they're coming out of a satellite that's crashing into a gas giant or something.

I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

A lot of the stuff I listen to is glitchy electronic stuff and stuff with beats.

It takes me forever to write songs most of the time.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn. The less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything...

Your world is as big as you make it.I know, for I used to abideIn the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.

People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.

Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look.

Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.