You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

No drug is a cure, though. Drugs are just big pieces of tape they stick over warning lights.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

Spirituality is conversation with God, everything else is just religious custom.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

May living your truth set you free!

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time.