The Internet provides the access to resources, so it's incumbent upon the people who control those resources to make sure that the economic engine stays intact.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

Everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, and scared, even the people who seem to have it more or less together.

When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

Whether our fear is absolutely realistic or out of proportion in our minds, our greatest refuge is Jesus Christ.

I cleared my throat - it isn't frogs you get in your throat; it's memories.

The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness.

Personally, I've decided to stop evolving.

One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.