I stopped going out and taking pills and I started hanging out and learning about flat eleven chords.

I've always loved improvising. That's how I write songs. Creativity has an improvised element to it.

It's really hard to make something that doesn't sound like everything else.

If I don't keep my music varied I go a bit stir crazy, you know? If I don't have the opportunity to jump genres every now and again I feel I'm boxed-in.

I can see that in retrospect but I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me.

It's weird how things are really stop-start in my creative process. I can't just turn it on - it just happens kind of randomly and I've just got to ride it when it's good. Surf's up! It's like that.

I feel myself developing more and more of this soul voice, and...it's a mystery to me. Fundamentally, I just think because I feel it, it's alright.

I really wanted to maintain that bedroom philosophy to creating stuff.

People can rock together, people can do great things together, and that's what you love when you're working with characters and it's all going well.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

A consistent man believes in destiny

The wand picks you, you don't pick the wand.

For good work to develop the technology needs to become as stable and functional as a typewriter.

That place is so behind the times, you can't even get AIDS there yet.

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

There's no right or wrong, exercise is exercise and it's incredibly healthy for you and, you know, society. And it's a positive thing, so however you want to do it, each individual to themselves.

Frank nodded grimly. “Well…any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can’t be all bad. Let’s go.

When young, one learns his craftsmanship, may become a young master, and it is youth that is most auspicious for developing certain skills.

Fiction is empathy technology.