I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

The music is supposed to be healing.

Make your writing memorable.

Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of self-knowledge. The unexamined life is not a risk for them.

Abundance is more than your money, your title or your profession.

If you think about it, an unfair society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit and not when they miss and commit to memory the one and forget and pass over the other.

One who previously made bad karma, but who reforms and creates good karma, brightens the world like the moon appearing from behind a cloud.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.

Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.