The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

The sexuality of children - there's a lot friction there. That tension interests me a lot.

You make your work and you can't ask for approval when you're doing it. Otherwise, it's going to be untruthful in some way.

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

I don't want to sound like everybody else.

I like loud electric guitars because I like how you can just lose your entire being in the sound.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

I used to routinely break my ribs doing stupid things onstage, but I have a healthy fear of breaking my bones now.

I'm pretty confident that people are going to come along for the ride. If they don't, tough.

Making those CDs, signing them, numbering them, packing them. It takes hundreds of hours, but it's worth it because I'm able to do the thing I love.

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.

The song and the land are one.

The ability to rebound is in inverse proportion to the distance your house is from the nearest railroad tracks.

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth.

Mach-5, the speed at which stress can't keep up, is simply forward motion. But it has to be self- propelled. Note that people in cars are still stressed.

If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn't do art.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.

Older patients who live alone can become depressed.

For me, I've just always known that women were more than capable of being able to direct.