There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days

We all assume the worst the best we can.

I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.

I just try to use my own life to build a human song: something that people can relate to in some way. It's not like the psychiatrist's couch or anything.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

I'm kind of interested in visual communication. For me it's more about suggesting than arguing a point.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.

There are good places to play and bad places.

Relationships are all about trust and equality. If one person shares, then the other person should share, too.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

You are a dance of a divine spirit

You have to love the office and you have to love our country and what is going on right now.

Positive work environments outperform negative work environments.

A lot of American companies are now moving into Iraq. Iraq now has Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell and Popeye's fried chicken. So, great, instead of oil for food, we're giving them oil in food.

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.