Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital.

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a vinyl side.

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional nationalist ideas.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.

I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.

I download music just like anybody else, but it's a weird relationship when you're a musician.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater to that.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run—but it could just as easily cost you everything.

To live for your dreams, you have to be fearless in life.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

Through your ability to think and feel, you have dominion over all creation.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.