Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh.

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

An electronic instrument is just harboring a natural element the same way that a guitar is harboring an acoustic element. It's all nature, really.

To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water.

I think more about sounds rather than concepts.

The world can get a bit ugly sometimes.

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

Growing up, I never thought about the thing called money.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

Those who worry stumble long The Way.Those who pray have no time to stray.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

Love a single an additional and you will be satisfied. It really is as easy and as challenging as that.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.