In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward.

Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Cats don't like change without their consent.

You may be better than the rest, but you are not a success until you have made the effort to become the best you can be.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

There's this art form in songwriting that's incredibly difficult - to be really funny in a song and also really touching. I can't do that.

The dynamics and structures found in those groups called families in our society may not be evident in those groups called families in other places and times.

The fact that the same symbolic programming primitives work for those as work for math kinds of things, I think, really validates the idea of symbolic programming being something pretty general.

We must learn to live the African way. It's the only way to live in freedom and with dignity

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.