There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

I think the very word stalking implies that you're not supposed to like it. Otherwise, it would be called 'fluffy harmless observation time'.

....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

Sharing revelations is easier when it doesn't matter.

Certainly, it's very easy to fall in love with cash. If you're going to make all your decisions based on cash, you're going to have a pretty naffy career.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Sometimes the road to wellness isnt a well-marked expressway.

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy moment.

I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.