I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

I've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet.

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was nearly a coherent thing-for a minute.

One good maxim to keep in mind, and I can't remember who said it, "You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way."

Somebody who is unique - and this will get me into trouble - by definition cannot be replaced.

Video games have become this really weird medium where it's not quite mainstream but it's not quite art either.

So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible to stop the traffic, or even to make a serious reduction in its scope.

Punk rock is just another word for freedom.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.