It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.

The jobs left, and the factories closed... the wealth, strength and confidence of America has disappeared over the horizon.

I love having a man in my life, and being his woman at the end of the day. I know it's a dichotomy.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

. . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . .

In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."

The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.