Music can always serve a role in people's lives when it's emotional and warm and inviting and beautiful.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

I was very happy in both my marriages. I was unfaithful and so were they, just like any other normal couple.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

I'm such a damn workaholic, that it's interesting to be like, "Oh, what do I do for fun?"

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

Lift up your eyes discouraged one

I'm not mad. I'm a writer.

Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.

Whenever I see Michael Jordan I'm still blown away because he was such a hero of mine growing up.

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army.