Luckily, there's enough people who have recorded songs that I can just go online and kind of figure out how to play them.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

You might well ask just what the hell he was thinking. The answer is, probably nothing at all.He'd probably say he was exercising his God-given right to stupidity.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiasticall y they drive you to your own destruction.

I can take a phrase that's rarely heard/Flip it - now it's a daily word

All men are difficult.

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.