IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

Dancing is very like poetry.

One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

I don't want to use the term 'plus-size, ' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't have a positive connotation to it. I tend to not use it.

The purpose of me touring and writing is to create music and nothing else. Its really not about updating people on social media about things that have nothing to do about music.

Time past cannot be stopped, saved, or regained. But a photograph allows you to borrow it.

Nothing weighs more than a secret.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.

Music is structure out of Chaos