Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I can really only can record at home.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

I'm really not working in a environment that's sonically pristine. It's not a conventional studio, obviously; it's a bit ramshackle.

Most times, the best thing people deserve from us is our silence.speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words

Do you want to lead, or do you want to be liked?

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

A Polish man had his vasectomy done at Sears. Now when he makes love, the garage door goes up.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out.

The less unnecessary effort you put into learning, the more successful you'll be . . . Doing the wrong thing with more intensity rarely improves the situation.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are IMPOSSIBLE.