I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.

I can really only can record at home.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I feel as though I can get an end result that works for me, but as far as recording techniques, I don't feel that confident in my abilities.

People tend to eat through the cello. They tend to take out the things that make it beautifully cello-y sometimes.

I saw Grizzly Man; I know what can happen.

I have totally like an urbanite relationship to nature. I mean I'm not someone who hikes.

I don't really understand the natural world, I admire it and am a little bit afraid of its power.

I feel like we as human beings are trampling all over the natural world, but at the same time, we are totally in its power.

I've been making the recordings for a long time, and I have tons and tons of them. I'm like a digital hoarder or something - everything is on like hard drives and whatever.

Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one.

Even under a harsh God-and I do not believe in a harsh God-one is entitled to serenity in old age.

We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.

I can't change it, That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it.

In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.

A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party. But I believed in Obama's promises. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.

Chefs don't do ponytails and we shouldn't do them because I guarantee that whenever there's a discovery of hair in the food, it's guaranteed it's from the chef's ponytail.

I don't cook, but I would love to learn.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.