Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Choose your mutations carefully...

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born.

I think L.A. gets a bad rap. L.A. is the same as everywhere else.

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

Three scenarios for post-Kyoto emissions reductions indicate that ... the long-term consequences are small... The influence of the Protocol would, furthermore, be undetectable for many decades.