So, once I've written a song, you know, I'm pretty happy with what the song is on its own terms.

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

There are books showing men how to succeed in everything they are written by men who cannot even succeed in writing books.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.

You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.

Truths are more likely to be discovered by one man than by a nation

Yon foaming flood seems motionless as ice;Its dizzy turbulence eludes the eye,Frozen by distance.