In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

By learning to be more warm-hearted we can create a more compassionate world.

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

Prayer is knowing that what I ask for is always far bigger than what I could ever articulate, but it is never too big for God to understand nor is it ever too vast for Him to deliver.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

I am generally a very happy and easygoing person. I also believe it's always better to meet people with a smile rather than looking cold, especially when you first meet. It changes everything.

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.

Don't mess up the environment until you're quite sure what you're doing.

Inside, I was like: "Ha, suck my spiky rubber strap-on, vampyre hunter!

Fashion starts with fashionable people.

Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers