My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Two easy steps to be a good writer:1. Don't write what everyone is writing.2. Write what everyone is trying to write.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.

I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to read poems.

What most of us want is to be heard, to communicate.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

I've always been - you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I'm just being who God made me to be.

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

In our conditioned nature we do not understand value of something until we lose it.