I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.

All it takes, is a little spark...

And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

The only thing that separates successful people from the ones who aren't is the willingness to work very, very hard.

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

Hundreds and hundreds of beautiful horses in the parade and a man without a silver saddle is a vagrant.