I guess I just want everything to be available immediately.

It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

I'd always maintained an image so that people wouldn't approach me.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long

And I really believe that. Asthma is NOT a disability!

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.

Islam is an ideology. It's not a race.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?

If the military contractors are out of Afghanistan, Karzai is out 15 minutes later.

A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live!