In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.