That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me.

For me, the voice expresses things that there are just no other ways to express.

I'm pretty resigned to the fact that I never hear music the way anyone else does, and I no longer find it surprising.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.

Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it.

If you fall for someone, make sure they’re there to catch you.

I was dying. And I had never been enough for anything.

Love will conquer at the last.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting for this representation.

The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing.

No-one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned.

I've risen from the dead. Though sometimes, when I wake up in the morning, I feel like I've died. I swear I'm aging in dog years. But no, I'm not dead. It's funny how stuff like that gets started.