I don't feel that one instrument has more weight than others. Any sound that you can produce adds to your vocabulary of possibilities.

People may need something to celebrate. They need a context in which to celebrate things. They need something that fills the void that's left by the bankruptcy of religion and so forth.

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.

I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

The Japanese are hard to figure out.

If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.

You don't want to be the best at what you do, you want to be the only one.