The moment a career is on a quantitative downswing, your loathsomeness is sort of attenuated.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer.

The good thing about not being drop-dead gorgeous is that as time passes, I don't have much to worry about. I have friends who are actors and every day they look in the mirror with trepidation.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

I like noise. It's always puzzled me why one of the goals of contemporary recording is to get rid of noise and to eliminate any element of a performance.

If valleys are the dimples on the face of the earth, as Steven King once said, then Silicon Valley is the deepest, most sparkling dimple of them all.

We carry our childhood with us.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

I am not keeping my distance because it is uncomfortable for me, but because it is uncomfortable for them.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.

The only motive strong enough to induce men to exercise the self control required by the religion of Jesus is love.

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.

The most important figures for management of any organization are unknown and unknowable.