My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

I just want to be a guy with a guitar.

The music can tell people everything they need to know about being human beings. It's not my information, it's not mine. I didn't make it. I just discovered it.

One thing that I'm kind of disturbed at is actually being on the television, acting, being in something that's mainstream.

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive.