The Chili Peppers have a real strict two-week on/two-week off policy - aside from me, everybody has families.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

Life seems terrible and disappointing, so you need to find something you need to make you stick around. Music that makes me happiest is the saddest music, with the most emotional feel.

There's a very thin line between rightfully protesting, and protesting so much that it becomes clear you're trying to hide something.

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

Salvation is a free gift.

Conscious effort inhibits and ‘jams’ the automatic creative mechanism.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.