If you look at someone like Joe Strummer or John Lennon, when you heard their music you knew that they wrote it and they cared about it.

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.

We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of daughter Annie

Life is a bonfire where everyone else has brought marshmallows, and you—a stick.

Creatures are not entitled to register complaints about their Creator.

Intelligent men have no need to listen to much talk, but should attend only to that which is profitable and guided by God's will.

I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.

There are so many people in the world with so many different perspectives. But ultimately, at the heart of it, they're people.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.