You've got to be in a place where you can put your guard down. I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

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

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

When real work happens and that's when real art happens.

Now if I lived in my land, which I do, if I lived in Iceland, if I lived in Greensland I'd still have Chinese children, but out of my ears my little grey baby hears.

I like California a lot. There's a lot of space, but it's actually the most populated place in the nation.