If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

For spiritual vision of our soul, we need to balance between quantitative illusions & qualitative reality of our life.

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

All legislation is founded upon the principle of mutual concession.

I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me.

Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.

But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.