I think it's great that people now have access to Pro Tools and other recording software at home. I've never understood how anyone could be comfortable in a recording studio

I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

In art school, I started to see Pettibon in magazines, and I figured it out backward. I was into the idea that someone could show work in galleries while making album covers and photocopied books.

Be curious, confident and courageous.

Empowerment is never about blame

If there has to be one flower that springs from the weeds, let that flower be YOU.

For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.

The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.

Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.

Take your passion and make it happen.

In my twenties, I was determined to change the world. In my thirties, I tried to transform the church. In my early forties, I discovered I was the problem.

Some play the piano well and some badly and there is a great difference in the melodies they produce.

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.