It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.

I need to broaden my horizons.

Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Hopefully, as a band, it will grow and develop for a good length of time.

I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.

I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

Let advertisers spend the same amount of money improving their product that they do on advertising and they wouldn't have to advertise it.

I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard.

I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.

They sell pot named after me in the dispensaries. And I'm not even a pot guy. I was so honored.

Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.

We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

Surrender is learning to get out of the way of what wants to happen naturally.

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.