Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

It only takes one profound experience to change somebody's life.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.