It's crucial that people are on the right measure at the right time.

I really feel instrumental music can speak - can contain tremendous amounts of information - but it's speaking to your subconscious.

Music is about imagination. It's about thought. It's about creating something from nothing.

I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with the music.

It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

One hundred guitarists making lots of noise would not be something you'd want to listen to.

I'm never happy with anything.

Whatever works for the piece I'm thinking about is the way I write.

I'm just not arbitrarily choosing to have five guitars play one type of thing. In that way there's a definite similarity between a symphony orchestra and the 100 guitar symphony.

I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.

I liked rock music going back to the '60s, but I never ever had any desire to be a rock musician and when I started doing a band it was experimental music.

When you thank GOD for what you have, it means you appreciate and value what's in your hands. And when you value what's in your hands, it will open up its wonder to you.

Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

I actually went on a vegan diet. So I was nagging myself there. I don't nag other people about it. It was sort of an interesting experiment, and I found it wasn't that hard at all.

The only kind of trouble I've ever been in is when I was stealing eggs when I was little. I think I know right from wrong.

Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

Obama came in and gave $700 billion to the bankers off the top as opposed to giving $700 billion to the poor.

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.