Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

The music is supposed to be healing.

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children!

Feed the truth. Starve the lie.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.

All I want is to have my peace of mind...

I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.

They [Goverment] take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.