If someone writes a nice review of my record, I feel like I should take them out to dinner or go over and clean their apartment.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

I think I know the delights of freedom

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in. It was more than that. I know it was more than that.

Here I am at the end of the road and at the top of the heap.

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.