I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

We suffer only until we realize that we can't know anything.

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

You're not falling for me, are you, Irish?" -Adam to Gabrielle

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.