In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

In a way, all recorded music is reduced to the same level, no matter what it is. You find it in the store, you put it on and, "Oh, that's not cool. That's gangsta rap. That's white supremacist punk." But in a way, the content is removed from the intention of the people that made it. That's the commercial level of music.