My interests started about in science and in mathematics, I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

What does it mean, exactly, for a given system to be a "neural correlate of consciousness"?

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

It probably helps that my background is in the sciences and I can speak the scientists' language.

True love never wants to get, just give. True love never can hurt because it always forgives.

I had to decide who I was, Night or Day, Human or Vampire.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

That's the very reason why love is eternal, because it is forever renewed. Passions die, love remains.

It is more than enough to be an ethically and an evolutionarily developed human being. All other titles and identities of man are inferior to this fact!

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

I wish being a beekeeper, which I am, gave you a free pass on the carbon footprint, but it doesn't.

When I play for the people, every time I play for my audience they are hypnotized, seen. These guys know the potential of the music.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.