The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.

Art is borne out of necessity. Music is a tool and men are doers. When a relationship is working, you don't need to write a song-you need to get toilet paper.

The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint. I was obsessed with the Beatles as a kid.

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.

In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.

There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous andshallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what youknow ain't so'.

I see science and mysticism as two complementary manifestations of the human mind

A geek is a person, male or female, with an abiding, obsessive, self-effacing, even self-destroying love for something besides status

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.

Obstacles to job creation in America are a result of policy, not of motivation.

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.