Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette'

Life's too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don't care.

Never take a person away from the music they love.

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

There's a lot that's happened in my life that maybe I didn't want to happen, but I suppose it's led me to exactly where I am now.

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

We like to juxtapose our music with a more dour aesthetic.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

The idea of being part of this tapestry of humanity is a far more enlightening idea for me than believing you are going to this different place when you die. The magic of reality is far more potent.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Are you a traveling man he asked?

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I found with my students they don't necessarily look at journals any more, but they print right away from the internet what's relevant to what's he doing you see.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

If I ever go into a coma, one of you has to promise to come by occasionally and tweeze my unibrow.

Don't mind what people say to you, find out what you have in yourself and do your best, that is the only hope in life

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.

That's how it is online—there's no time in cyberspace. It's almost like everything physical evaporates, and it's just your mind and the different sites floating in a void.