Playing an old record doesn't interest me at all. It's exactly the opposite of what I want to do.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.

I always believed that I never wanted to be an actor. I only did it because I was allowed to do it and I had to do something.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

I married an awesome cook, thats cool!

A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control.

While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.