It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

hold company with yourself so sacredthat even when you are alone, you are whole.

80s music sounds so 80s now. But in the 80s, it just sounded like music.

Natural gas is a feedstock in basically every industrial process.

It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.

When I am perfectly clear, what is is what I want.

Money is good, love is wealth.

Which is the best religion? [...] The religion that brings you closest to God.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.