Serious music isn't listened to in a casual setting. You don't want to listen to that in headphones on the subway.

Never try to do anything artistic when you're feeling something overwhelming. It's like driving a car: If you're experiencing road rage, pull over.

If you start out with a song sounding like Britney Spears, and you end up with a song sounding like Pauline Oliveros, you'd better have pretty good liner notes explaining what on earth you mean.

Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.

I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.

There's a whole kind of melancholy that you can only attain with reverb. That's an example of a technology introducing a whole new meaning.

At first I was laboring under the impression that Chinese lyrics didn't rhyme. That turned out to be untrue - they don't rhyme in translation.

I can imagine lyrics becoming better written by smart machines rather than stupid musicians. Songwriters generally have nothing to say. They may as well be replaced by machines.

My mother says I have boring percussion.

When you're making a singular pop song, you don't really need any subject matter. You just sort of say, "Uh, I love you." And then you try to figure out some rhyme for that, and there never is one.

I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.

Educate thyself.

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

It may be a good thing to copy reality; but to invent reality is much, much better.

There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System

You ain't going nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck.

If everyone thinks one way, it is likely to be wrong. If you can figure out that it is wrong, you are likely to make a lot of money.

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

The world out there is not waiting for a new definition of Christianity; it's waiting for a new demonstration of Christianity.

Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.