I really [enjoy] working with new people and just sort of the freshness of it. ... I [want] to have those new conversations, musically and otherwise.

One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.

Humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy.

There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I'm not really excited about the idea of committing to anything permanently.

I was a regular dork. I was a kid who was scrawny and all that, and probably kind of dumb or something. I wasn't unordinary; I wasn't extraordinary.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

I suppose, if someone was into baseball for an extended period of time during their formative years, they're always going to be interested in it.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

You see, insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

Now is the time. It is never too late to start something.

My husband keeps me really honest.

I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

Our priorities is our faith.

When you do your best, you are expressing an attribute of God.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

I'm building a glass pyramid over the Egyptian escalator where my body will be mummified, so my customers can come and see me forever.