The actual work of recording a record or making a film just requires that you consciously block the time out to do that and nothing else. That's what I do.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

Blessed be the grateful soul!

When you pray to God asking for something, make sure you are asking for the things that are driven by love and passion rather than the ones that are pushed by hate and anger.

You ever play that game seven minutes in heaven, baby? Because we're about to play it.

I threw my hand over my mouth and blurted out the first best excuse I could come up with, “Morning breath!

A horse that loves and cares for a man was loved and cared for by a man!

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

I'm part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.