New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

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.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

We can find meaning and reward by serving some higher purpose than ourselves, a shining purpose, the illumination of a Thousand Points of Light...We all have something to give.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

The Shariah has many other functions but also protects the tarqiah; it protects the spiritual path.

If you melt dry ice in a pool and go swimming, will you get wet?

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.

It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky.