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

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

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

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

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

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.

Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

Let's continue to pray for each other and ask the Lord to bring us closer to each other. He (God) will bring us not only 79 votes, but more than 79 (votes).

I believe in geographic cures - they allow you to throw all your cards in the air and see where they land, then pick them back up and deal them again.

The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.