Eventually, I thought that it's interesting to make some rules for yourself while you're working on one project so it sounds different from the other stuff you do.

I don't hate religion, I try not to hate religion. I hate the terrible things that religion makes people do, and I hate the greed that comes from it.

I love America, and I love living here.

That's almost the best part, making the record cover.

Sometimes bigger cities, just because there's so much going on, people are a little more jaded.

I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

I'd like to believe there are people who are good, I know there are good Christians and good people from every faith who just want what's best for humanity.

Licensing can be great. You get money for work that's already done. It's not a horrible thing to me, there's just some things I don't want to soundtrack.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible.

For peace, look not outside but inside.

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

It's the gloomy things that need our help, if everything in the garden is sunny, why meddle?

Computers are useless - all they can give you are answers.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

People like to trace their ancestry.