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

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

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.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

Everyone's moving on without me, into a world I don't understand.

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

It seems to me that the way to remove people's cynicism is, when asked a straight question, to give a straight answer.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

We're finding [texting] 11 times more powerful than email [for communicating with kids].

Power isn’t just about going forward. It’s about not letting anything hold you back.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.