Soft silly music is meaningful, magical.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.

God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I do feel like it's so important not to take that for granted - that opportunity to share your ideas with intelligent, beautiful people.

The music is supposed to be healing.

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

Sometimes it's not that you "fell out of love" it's that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly "in love" to begin with.

If a pen can communicate our thoughts, dreams, and emotions and be the voice of our soul, then ink is the medium that carries the message.

I've developed an audience over the years and I don't want to loose them.

My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

I don't lose a lot of sleep worrying about aliens, but I think it seems possible that there's life forms beyond our solar system.

A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.

My wife and I really enjoy a glass of red wine. We're too old to drink cheap wine, and we don't.

Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other.

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.