The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

My weakness is that I care so much!!! She knew my weakness and USED ME as long as she wants!

...didn't need to waste so much time envisioning some vague horribleness awaiting me in my future.

Unless you have a crystal ballyou don’t know how thefuture is going to unfold.Focus on the things you caninfluence and don’t fretover the rest.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

All the time it's a changing And all the dreamers are waking.

You are what you know, as an actor, so you gotta try to know as much as you possibly can.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.