In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

I'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.

Alchemy: In times of recession it's not wise to argue about the price of gold.

Read history, works of truth, not novels and romances

Love as if it is eternal. Love when you are alive and when you are not alive.

Power and control are more dangerous than any weapons.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.

Love is not emotion, it's a way of being.

I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.

I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.