You're called a genius by people, and then your whole life you become the part.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

I always do get a little bit paranoid when I get a lot of attention. But I get used to it.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

There's nothing greater than a girl.... Well a kid, your daughter, but that's a girl too.

Some people might think that sex is the highest experience you can have. I tend to think that music is.