I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

Not how well you see in a clear weather but how well you see in a foggy weather determines how better you are than others!

The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.

I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.

Don't drown yourself in details. Look at the whole.

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

I was very shy and very reserved as a child, very, very introvert.