You have to collaborate with the moment and the environment. It kind of was magnified by the house being a studio.

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

As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

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

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

We live in an age where many things are working hard to conk us out and anesthetize us. Anything we can do to shake us out of that- with no other purpose than to wake us- is valuable.