To me, craft work is the ultimate. Maybe I got this idea from the autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, who was employed as a sculptor to the state and church, making coins and things. While he admired Michelangelo, he also made fun of his spiritual angst with art.

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

I don't live anywhere, so that's what's fun about tours.