Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

Show me that horizon, promise me a world better than this on the other side of the sun.

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

My writing, I am prepared to think, may be a substitute for something I have been born without - a so-called normal relation to society. My books are my relation to society.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization.

Don’t feel like you have to take every suggestion people give you. Not every good idea is a God idea.

As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.

Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!

Sitting and watching a game show, or betting on your lucky numbers is not the price that most of the top 1% paid to become rich