I guess I've written enough songs now. I've been doing this for so many years, that it's kinda cool just to be able to pull something out of the bag.

If anything, I don't have any intention of recording music that's just me playing acoustic guitar singing a song anytime soon.

I've done collaborations with Scott [Morgan, aka Loscil] in the past, but it is something that kind of appeals to me these days.

In the end when you get your master back, you realize it's got absolutely nothing to do with what you thought it was going to be when you started.

People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.

Become more skilful in how you use words – towards yourself or others.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

If a man does his best, what else is there?

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Life is too short to be wondering, 'What if?'

No one can take away your right to fight and never surrender.

I'm kind of like a relic from another era.

Truth is beautiful and divine, no matter how humble its origin; it is the same in the musty boiler-room as it is in the glorious stars of heaven.

And I, as I lived, in an alien landWill die a slave and an orphan.

I'm confident being at Universal, which is a great home for me, 'cause they understand what I'm trying to do.