As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I'm just doing it live.

What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

When young groups put out albums, they're always forced to go through this cycle of touring and talking and flaunting and posturing and peacocking. Nobody makes me do that anymore.

The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.

I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was.

Planning trip around the globe, that is in my room.

You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are-but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

At an early age I found the world a very natural place to be. I was always in a meditative consciousness as a child, which children are.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so I can do more, acquiring less so I can have more.

To me at least was never evening yet, but seemed far beautifuller than its day.

If you make a habit of doing nothing, you have already earned your reward.