Things come to me pretty regularly. There is never a shortage or a backlog

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.

Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that

My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected

But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group - and their own.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you’re fighting for

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans.

Anything can be worked out, between anyone, at anytime, when you want the outcome bad enough.

The #‎ knuckleball can be a metaphor of what it's like to let go.

When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn't think anyone would notice, but I persevered because - like you trying to do a nine-piece jigsaw puzzle - it was a labour of love.